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view of the cities and historic shores of the Narragansett country. En- 
couraged by the public favor shown to a smaller and unillustrated volume 
previously issued, we have consented to prepare a larger and more historic 
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and wonderful progress made on these shores from the providential begin- 
ning in 1636. The key to this progress will be recognized in the faith, spirit, principles, 
courage and perseverance of our fathers. 

This is not a reprint of any previous work, but something projected on its own novel 
base; nor is it made up of extracts from other volumes. Our design is to show what was 
and what is. 

No efforts have been spared to make our work trustworthy in respect to names, dates 
and events. The highest authorities have been carefully consulted and faithfully followed. 
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Providence, .... 
Landing of Roger Williams, 
Roger Williams Rock, 
City of Providence, 
Stampers Hill, 
King Philip's War, 
The Market House, . 
Weybosset Bridge, 
The Whipple Hovise, . 
The State House, 
Seal of the State, 
Old Streets, 
Royal Street, 
Transit Street, 
The Arcade, 
The Custom House, . 
The Court House, 
Butler Exchange, 

The Cove 

The City Hall, . 
The State Prison, 
Hope Reservoir, . 
Public Houses, 
The Mansion House, . 
Narragansett Hotel, . 
Public Buildings, 
Narragansett Trotting Park, 
Park Garden Pavilion, 
Low's Opera House, . 
North Barying-ground, 
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument 
First Light Infantry Armoiy 
United Train of Artillery, . 
Marine Corps of Artillery, . 
Providence Horse Guards, . 
Slocum Light Guards, 
Roger Williams Park, 
Roger Williams Monument, 
Betsey Williams' House, . 
Brown University, 
Friends' School, . 
The Athenaeum, . 
Providence Public Library, 
The High School, 
Dexter Asylum, . 
Butler Hospital, . 



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The Rhode Island Hospital, . . .33 
Home for Aged Women, . . . .35 

Home for Aged Men, 35 

Eleemosynary 35 

First Baptist Church 35 

St. John's Church, 36 

First Congregational Church, . . .36 
Beneficent Congregational Church, . . 36 
First Methodist Church, . . . .37 
First Universalis! Church, . . .37 

Grace Church, 37 

Union Congregational Church, . . .37 

The Cathedral 38 

St. Patrick's Church, 38 

Friends' Meeting House, . . . .38 

Other Churches, 38 

Population, 38 

The Drives 38 

Narragansett Bay, 39 

II. 

Bay and Shores — 

Excursions on the Bay, . . . .41 
Sassafras Point, . . .' . . .41 

Field's Point 42 

Squantum Bluff, 42 

Ocean Cottage, 42 

Silver Spring, 42 

Pomham Rocks, . . . . • . .43 

Cedar Grove, 43 

Riverside Hotel, 43 

The Elliott Hotel 44 

Pawtuxet, 44 

Cherry Grove, 44 

Bullock's Point 44, 

Gaspee Point, 44 

Turtle Cove, 44 

Nayatt, 45 

Barrington 45 

Mark Rock, 45 

River View House, 45 

Long Meadow House, . . . .45 

Warwick Club House, . . . .45 

R©CKY Point, 46 

Episode — Shore Glee, . . . .47 
Warwick Neck House, . . . .47 
Oakland Beach, 47 



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Bay and Shores — ^''^'^• 

Peage *7 

The Buttonwoods *7 

" Old Buttonwoods," . . • .48 

East Greenwich, 48 

Pottowomut Neck 49 

Warren, 49 

Popasquash Neck, 49 

Bristol, 49 

Mount Hope 50 

Mount Hope Bay, 50 

Tiverton 50 

Seaconnet Bay, 51 

Hog Island, 51 

Prudence Island, 52 

Wickford, 52 

The Cedars 53 

Conanicut Island 53 

Conanicut Park, . . . . . ,53 

Fort Dumplings, 54 

Dutch Island, 54 

Smaller Islands, 54 

NARRAGANSETT PlER, 55 

Tower Hill House, , 56 

Tower Hill, . . ' 57 



Sprague Mansion, 
Indian Rock, 
Castle Rock, 
Point Judith, 
Watch Hill, 
Noyes' Beach, 
Block Island, 
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Goat Island, 63 

Lime Rocks, 63 

Brenton's Cove, 64 

Island of Rhode Island, . . . .64 



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Newport — 

City of Newport, . 
Old Stone Mill, . 
The State House, 
The City Hall, . 
The Channing House, 
The Vernon House, 
Oldest House, 
Fort Greene, 
Fort Adams, 
Abraham Whipple, 
Liberty Tree, 
Sloop Tartar, 
The Redwood Library 
Educational, 
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Reading Room, 



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Rogers High School, 72 

Military 72 

Newport Artillery, 72 

Newport Guards, 73 

Light Infantry, 73 

Burnside Guards, 73 

Engine Company, 73 

Jewish Cemetery 73 

Newport Hospital, 74 

The Asylum 74 

The Perry Monument, . . . .74 

Oliver H. Perry, 74 

Com. M. C. Perry 74 

The Jewish Synagogue, . . . .75 
Quaker Meeting-House, . . . .75 

Trinity Church 75 

First Baptist Church, . . . .75 

Second Baptist Church, . . . .76 

Central Baptist Church 76 

Congregational Church, . . . .76 
Methodist Church, . . . . 76 

All Saints Chapel 76 

Unitarians, 76 

St. Mary's Church, 76 

Shiloh Church, 76 

Bellevue Avenue 76 

Ocean Drive, ...... 76 

Bath Road, 77 

Narragansett Avenue, . . . .77 

Indian Avenue, 77 

Washington street 77 

Thames street, • 77 

Spring street, 77 

Kay street, ....... 77 

Miantonomi Hill, 77 

The Beaches 78 

Spouting Rock, 78 

Forty Steps 78 

Beach Pavilion, 78 

Purgatory, 78 

Hanging Rocks, 79 

Land's End 79 

The Glen, 80 

North Point, ...... 80 

Portsmouth Grove, 80 

Hotels, 81 

Atlantic House, 81 

Cottages, 81 

Newport Villa Owners, . . . .83 

Cottage Rentals, 85 

Brooklyn Yacht Clirb, . . . .87 

Warwick Yacht Club, .... 87 

New York Yacht Club, .... 88 
Providence Yacht Club, . . . .88 



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View of the City of Providence, . Frontispiece. 



Map, 

View of Westminster Street, 
Old Market House, 
State House, 
The Arcade, 
U. S. Custom House, . 
Court House, 
Butler Exchange, 
City Hall, . 
"Narragansett Hotel, . 
Park Garden Pavilion, 
Low's Opera House, . 
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, 
First Light Infantry Armory, 
Silver Lake — Park, . 
Roger Williams Monument, 
J3etsey Williams House, 
Friends' School, 
Providence Athenjeum, 
Butler Hospital, . 
Providence High School, . 
Rhode Island Hospital, 
First Baptist Church, 
Beneficent Congregational Church 
Chestnut Street Church, . 
First Universalist Church, 
■Cathedral, .... 
First Congregational Church, 
Hotel Dorrance, . 
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Bay and Shores — 

Field's Point, 43 

Squantum, 45 

Ocean Cottage, 46 



Bat and Shores — 
Silver Spring, 

Silver Spring Cottage, 
Rocky Point, . 

Flying Horses, 

Restaurant, . 
Nayatt House, 
Narragansett Pier, 

Hazard's Gate, . 

Bathing Scene, . 

Point Judith, 

Indian Rock, 

Watch Hill Light, 
Block Island, 

Block Island Light, 

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Newport — 

View of Newport, 
Lime Rocks, 
Old Mill, 

Fort Dumplings, . 
Ancient Days, 
Redwood Library, 
Jewish Cemetery, 
Perry Monument, 
Trinity Church, . 
The Drives, . 
The Beach, . 
Spouting Cave, . 
Forty Steps, 
Purgatory, . 
Whitehall, . 
Happy Valley, 
Land's End, 
The Glen, . 
Old Windmill, . 
Marquand's Cottage, 
Lorillard's Cottage, 
Old Coddington House 



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Of Thy protecting grace, their father's sense, 
And, where they name their home, proclaim Thy Providence." 




UK pictorial view of the Narragan- 
sett shores must necessarily begin 
with Providence — the historical 
initial of the State. 

Since, in keeping with our 
thoughtfully adopted design, as 
best for our many visitors, we 
shall only furnish glimpses of the remarka- 
ble events that have been crowded into the 
250 years of the city's history, we shall 
select those that best exemplify the various 
and instructive changes that have occurred, 
and must, therefore, necessarily seem to pass 
with rapidity and sometimes with abruptness 
from one point of view to another. We trust, 
however, that all the points, when duly 
weighed, will be found to be related as mak- 
ing up an illustrative whole. 

The Landing of Roger Williams. — "What 
cheer, Xetop," was the cradle-song of the 
State of Rhode Island, the inspired saluta- 
tion of the Indians, on the west bank of the 
Seekonk, welcoming the State's founder, in 
June, 1636, as he stepped from a canoe on 
the now famous Slate Rock. It was a fit- 
ting prelude to the planting of perfect relig- 
ious liberty. It was the pagans' frankincense 
offered to the exiled Christian apostle. 

Roger Williams was born in Wales, in 
1599 ; was edticated in Pembroke College, 
Cambridge University, from which he took 
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in January, 
1626-27; first studied law and then theology; 
was ordained in the Episcopal Church. To 
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escape the severities of English law in re- 
spect to conformity, he came to New England 
early in 1631, in the ship Lyon, landing at 
Nantasket in Massachusetts. His views of 
soul-liberty not agreeing with those of the 
Puritans of that colony, after a settlement 
with the church in Salem and a term of 
service with the church of the Pilgrims at 
Plymouth and a resettlement at Salem, he 
was banished from the Massachusetts colony 
by the Puritans in January, 1636. Fleeing 
alone into the wilderness where he was 
" sorely tossed for one fourteen weeks in a 
bitter winter season, not knowing what bread 
or bed did mean," he finally halted in the do- 
minion of kindly Massasoit in Seekonk, but 
was soon compelled to fly across the river to 
the province of the aged and generous 
Canonicus. Here he founded, through the 
favor of Canonicus and his nephew Mian- 
tonomi, but more through the good direc- 
tion of Heaven, the new city that he named 
Providence, as he says " in grateful remem- 
brance of God's merciful providence to me 
in my distress." Here with his little band 
of five companions he planted his standard 
of full " liberty in matters of religious con- 
cernment," and established a pure demo- 
cratic civil government. Purchasing lands 
of the Indians ; founding a new church — 
now known as the First Baptist Church in 
Providence ; negotiating treaties with the 
natives ; studying the Indian tongue ; serv- 
ing as a missionary among the aborigines; 



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writing books; discussing doctrines with the 
Puritans and Quakers ; making voyages to 
England to secure charters for his colony; 
acting always as the servant of all men, he 
spent a laborious and memorable life, and 
died early in the year KlSo in the eighty- 
fourth year of his age, leaving a name that 
has become a household word, not only for 
a State, but for a great nation. 




Old Market House, Providence. 

Roger Williams Rock. — Plymouth proudly 
cherishes her Pilgrim Rock, and gives its 
sacredness in charge to the sweet lyre. 
Providence may boast as well — yea, more; 
she has her holy Liberty Rock, tliough as 
yet less honored of the children of song. 
Visitors now find the old stepping-stone of 
Freedom at the foot of Williams street. It 
is soon to be specially honored by the city. 
We anticipate the occasion with a few im- 
promptu words : — 

Memorial thou— our song— a people's pride, 

Upon whose ancient foot-marks still we gaze, 
And note the ever onward moving tide 

Of Providence's all-wise mysterious ways. 
How sure, though coming years may bring 

Surprising change, that, till earth's final shock, 
Along these favored shores, true men will sing 

The name and fame of Hoger WilUams Rock. 
Rhode Island's corner stone of history 

Cast by the hand of God, yet graved by man. 
Expressive symbol of the mystery 

That links the human and divine in plan ; 
When marble monuments upreai-ed by pride 

Shall crumble 'neath the bribeless hand of time, 
Thou Shalt remain, the Seekonk's wave beside, 

A granite tribute to a life sublime. 



The house of Roger Williams stood on 
land now embraced between Xorth Main, 
Bowen, Benefit and Church streets, and 
nearly east from Williams' spring. Unfort- 
unately the spring is now covered by a 
dwelling-house. Mr. Williams was buried on 
land between Benefit and Congdon streets 
east of his residence. His remains were ex- 
humed in ISOO by Mi-. Stephen Randall, one 
of his descendants, and placed in Mr. Ran- 
dall's tomb in the Xorth Burying Ground, 
where they are to remain until a Roger Wil- 
liams monument, for which Mr. Randall left 
a fund, shall be erected on Prospect Hill. 

The City of Providence. — At first the for- 
est home of an exile and, on his account, 
for a season despised, has at last risen to 
be the second city in New England in respect 
to population, wealth, enterprise and in- 
fiitence, with its more than 100,000 inhabi- 
tants and its beautiful public and private 
buildings, its green hills and jjlains at the 
head waters of Xarragansett Bay, thirty- 
five miles from the Atlantic. Hon. S. G. 
Arnold, our State historian, terselj' and 
truly affirms, "Roger Williams was the 
incarnation of the idea of soul liberty; 
the town of Providence became its organi- 
zation." The "apostle of religious free- 
dom," with his five companions in their 
rude canoe, rounding the headlands of Tock- 
wotton and Fox Point, entered the Cove, 
then grandly hemmed by primeval forests, 
and near a spring — now famed as Roger 
Williams Spring — on the eastern shore, near 
the mouth of the Moshassuck, began the 
settlement to be so signally owned and 
favored of Heaven. 

Lots were laid out, stretching eastward 
through the trees over Moshassuck Hill — 
now euphoniously named Prospect Hill — the 
crest of which stands 204 feet above the sea 
level. The first highway is now our Js^'orth 
and Sovith Main streets. All lands were 
bought of the aborigines. The old oaks fell 
and cabins rose. 

Quaint and simple were the times when 
William Blackstone came down from Study 
Hill riding on a bull that he had broken to 
the saddle, to visit Mr. Williams and his as- 
sociates and aid them in their worship. 
Meanwhile Williams was giving away his 
lands and traveling for missionary purposes 



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amoug the natives, and writing out his key 
to the Indian language. 

Before calling the visitor's notice to our 
illustrations of the growth, beauty, and 
wealth of the town, we cannot forbear allud- 
ing to some of the war struggles — savage 
and civilized — and sore trials of policies, 
through which the unique settlement passed. 

At first the settlement was a pure and in- 
dependent democracy, and regulations were 
made "in civil things only." Shortly, how- 
ever, the settlers appointed "disposers" to 
manage certain affairs in their name. The 
town was formally incorporated by act of the 
colonial Assembly, in 1649, two years after 
the adoption of the Parliamentary charter. 
The second charter of the colony was ac- 
cepted in 1663. The town was less a human 
production than a providential 
growth. Men followed the con- 
victions that God gave them, and 
built better than they knew — a 
great lesson. 

"Beyond the poet's sweet dream 
lives 
The eternal epic of the man. 
He wisest is who only gives, 

True to himself, the best he can , 
Who, drifting- in the winds of praise, 
The inward monitor obej's ; 
And, with the boldness that confesses 

fear, 
Takes in the crowded saU, and lets his 
conscience steer." 

Stampers Hill, the bluff at the 
west of StamiJers street, on Con- 
stitution Hill, was early made his- 
toric, we are told, by a band of 
hostile Indians, who approached 
the settlement from the river val- 
ley, when a number of the settlers, 
by running and stamping on the 
Tjluff, gave to the enemy the im- 
pression that a force was here stationed. 
From this ruse it is>ffirmed that the spot 
received its name. 

Another version of the hill's name is that 
John Smith, who was authorized, in 1646, to 
erect his grist-mill, imported from Eng- 
land, or paid for the importation of, "the 
stampers" — wooden instruments for pul- 
verizing the corn. Hence the street leading 
up the hill, just above Mill bridge, was 
called Stampers street. It is certain that 
Smith's mill was the first hydraulic work in 



Rhode Island, if not the first in Xew Eng- 
land. 

In the winter of 16.55-56, the citizens, as 
a precautionary measure, erected a fort on 
Stampers Hill. Here a garrison was ordered 
in 1676, consisting of a captain and seven 
men; it was named King's garrison. In 1650 
the military stores of the town consisted of 
one barrel of powder, 500 pounds of lead, six 
pikes and six muskets. Probably swords 
were private property. Then every man's 
house was his armed castle. 

The muskets used by the first settlers of 
our country were matchlocks. The lighted 
match was moved to the touch-pan by a 
spring. The pan was opened by the hand. 
In firing the spring brought the match in 
contact with the powder in the open pan. 




State House, Piovideuce 

Matchlock muskets first came into use in 
1521. Bayonets were attached to muskets 
near 1690. Flint locks were first used about 
1700. It is an anachronism to describe the 
settlers of New England as pecking their 
flints before going into battle. They struck 
fire before the action commenced. 

King Philip's War inflicted its savage blow 
on the young town. When the Indians, with 
tomahawk and torch, approached the settle- 
ment and were met by Roger Williams, they 
said to him " Brother Williams, you are a 



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good man; you have been kind to us many 
years; not a hair of your head shall be 
touched." He was unharmed, but on the 
30th of March, 1676, fifty-four buildings were 
burned and the town was nearly destroyed. 
The records were saved by the town clerk, 
John Smith, the miller, who threw them into 
his mill pond, near the present mill bi-idge. 
The centre of the town then was Constitti- 




The Arcade, Providence. 

tion Hill. Xear this time, on Smith's Hill — 
named for the miller — an entrenched earth- 
work was thrown up nearly opposite King's 
garrison. 

King Philip's War was followed by the 
usurpation of Governor Andros, which 
greatly agitated the colony. In following 
years came the different colonial wars with 
French, Indians and Spaniards, constantly 
taxing the treasure and blood of the people, 
until at last came the great patriot struggle 
for independence. 

The Market "House at present is designated 
as the Old City Building. It stands alone in 
its glory in Market square ; and some historic 
glory it has. It was built for a " town mar- 
ket house" in 1773, and Nicholas Brown 
*'laid the first stone." It is of brick, 80x40 



feet, and was at first two stories high ; the 
first story was for a market, the second for 
town oflSces and tenants. In 1797 the town 
granted to St. John's Lodge of the Masonic 
Fraternity the right to add a third story ta 
be used as a hall. A basement story was 
subsequently added for market purposes. 
How much has been done in this building 
many volumes would fail to tell. 

Weybosset Bridge. — Weybosset — 
once spelled Wapwaysett — the Indian 
word for Ixalf v:ay, originally desig- 
nated a point of land — a little bold 
peninsula on the west of the river, 
now leveled down and filled around 
on every side by the arms of trade. 

The first frail bridge was thrown 
across the river in 1660: repaired by 
Roger Williams in 1668; afterwards 
swept away by a freshet near 1719. 
A second was built, but was destroyed 
by gale and flood in 1761. A third, 
eighteen feet wide, was put up by a 
grant of £'1,000, old tenor, and the 
avails of a lottery for the draw. The 
Cove was then a broad sheet of water 
forming a beautiful harbor for the 
keels of the town, to accommodate 
which the Weybosset bridge draw was 
ordered. Indeed, before the Revolu- 
tion a prosperous business was carried 
on around the Cove in ship-building. 
Vessels were constructed as far up 
^^F as the present Smith's bridge, and 
others on Great Point, afterwards oc- 
cupied by the State Prison. 
The fine bridges south of Weybosset, 
Crawford street bridge, and the Point street 
draw-bridge, are of late consti'uction. The 
latter was opened in October, 1872. 

The first bridge over the Moshassuck was 
erected, in 1662, near Thomas Olney, Jr.'s, 
dwelling-house, under Stampers Hill ; it was- 
near the present Mill street bridge. The 
Muddy Brook bridge connected the Wey- 
bosset peninsula with the main land; it 
was near the present crossing of Weybosset 
and Dorrance sti-eets. 

The Whipple House is now the oldest 
dwelling-house in Providence, dating back 
more than 200 years. In different prints it 
has appeared as the Abbott House and as 
the Roger Williams House. In fact it is the 
Whipple House, having belonged to Samuel 



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Whipple, who was born in 1643, and who 
occupied it at his death. He was the first 
person buried in the North Burying-ground. 
His tombstone reads : — 

Here lies ye body 
of Samuel Whipple 

who died March 
12tii IT^^ in ye 67tli 

year of his age. 

The house stands on the north side of 
Abbott street, a little east of Xorth Main 
street. It was once owned by the Abbotts. 
It is now the property of John Macomb, and 
is in good condition. The main rooms — 
parlor and chamber — are 16i 
feet square ; the parlor being but 
6| feet between joints. Still 
firmly stands the old stone chiip- 
ney — 12x6 feet at the base — 
and forming a part of the east 
end of the house after the old 
style. 

Tradition confidently reports 
that Roger Williams and his 
brave associates trod the floors 
of this house and held here re- 
ligious meetings, and that, prob- 
ably, from the latter fact, the 
building was spared by the In- 
dians when they burned the 
town, March 30, 1676. 

The State House in Provi- 
dence stands on the site of the 
Old Colony House, completed 
in 1731, but burnt in 1758. The 
present edifice, better known in 
history as the Court House, 
since the General Assembly was 
called the General Court, lo- 
cated between North Main and 
Benefit streets, occupying an en- 
tire square, was built in 1762, at 
a cost, as paper money then 
passed, of £51,556. Os. lid., old u s 

tenor. It is of brick with stone facings. 
Of late an addition has been made on the 
east side. The original building was 40x70 
feet. Notable scenes have occurred within 
these walls. The house is still redolent of 
Kevolutionary memories. 

To and fro through Providence during the 
Eevolution moved our patriot armies — now 
to Boston, now to Tiverton, now to New 
York. Two divisions of the French army 



aiding us quartered in this city for a time 
near the close of 1782. Their encampment 
was first on Mathewson Hill, and second on 
the east side of the Pawtucket Pike, north of 
Harrington's Lane (North street,) opposite 
the North Burying Ground, and reached by 
Camp street. Manning Hall (of Brown Uni- 
versity), became barracks and quarters for 
soldiers. Wonder not at the joy with which 
the declaration of peace was read from the 
balcony of the Court House (State House), 
April 22, 17So, followed by thirteen toasts, 
under a rousing salute of thirteen guns on 
the parade. Salutes bellowed also from the 




Custjm H u-je ^^ eybosset Stieet Pi evidence 

beacon station and batteiy on Piospect Hill. 
In this house President Washington was 
officially received in August, 1790. And it 
was on the steps of the west (front) entrance, 
amid a sea of spectators, that Lafayette, on 
his Aasit here in August, 1824, passing up 
the parade between lines of white-robed, 
flower-wreathed young ladies, who cast 
their garlands in his path, met his old 
comrade-in-arms, Capt. Stephen Olney, and 



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the two war-scaiTed veterans enthusiasti- 
cally embraced each other with tears. The 
multitude wept at the sight. They remem- 
bered that Captain Olney's sword was the 
first to flash on the parapet at Yorktown, 
when he exclaimed: " Captain Olney's com- 
pany — form here I" and how he was then 
wounded in arm, thigh, and abdomen, but 
held his post till victory was won. Lafay- 
ette had witnessed this valor, and never 
ceased to compliment the veteran. 

While the short 
May session of 
the Legislature 
is held in the 
State House i n 
Newport, the 
long January ses- 
sion is held here 
in Providence, as 
being most con- 
venient for the 
members. Here, 
too, the Secre- 
tary of State 
holds the princi- 
pal archives of 
the Common- 
wealth. The 
walls of the Sen- 
ate Chamber and 
the Secretary of 
State's office are 
appropriately 
graced with por- 
traits of the Gov- 
ernors. In the 
office of the Sec- 
retary of State 
hangs a f u 1 1 - 
length portrait of 
Washington, 
painted by Gil- 
bert Stuart. A like painting from the same 
hand is in the State House at Newport. 

The Seal of the State. — An anchor was 
adopted under the Parliamentary Charter in 
1(347. In 1664, when the Colony was fully or- 
ganized under the Eoyal Charter given by 
Charles II, the name of the Colony was 
changed from "Providence Plantations" to 
" Rhode Island and Providence Plantations," 
and the word "Hope" was added to the 
seal above the anchor, or, as some think. 




Court House, corner Benefit and College Streets, Providence 



was authoritatively continued. The back- 
ground of the seal is a simple shield. The 
scroll-work and rope, added by modern en- 
gravers, are without authority, and so out 
of place. 

Old Streets. — Olney street, leading east- 
ward from North Main, near the top of Con- 
stitution Hill, has its historic associations- 
from the fact that on it was a patriotic 
demonstration of the "Sons of Liberty," a 
league formed to resist the aggressive taxa- 
tions of England. 
In front of Capt. 
Joseph Olney's 
tavern was a 
large elm that 
was enthusiasti- 
cally dedicated 
to Liberty July 
25, 176S, after a 
custom then in 
vogue in New 
England, and a 
spirited oration, 
still preserved in 
print, was pro- 
nounced from a 
platform in the 
tree by Silas 
Downer. The 
women of Provi- 
dence also form- 
ed a league called 
"Daughters of 
Liberty," pledg- 
ed to abstain 
from tea and 
other taxed lux- 
uries, and to fos- 
ter home manu- 
factures. In Feb- 
ruary, 1773, the 
Sons of Liberty 
burned 300 pounds of tea on Market square, 
and with lamp-black effaced the word tea on 
the store signs. 

Royal Street, leading off of North Main 
at the north end, has a story belonging to it; 
that the man who there lived in the days of 
the patriot struggle, being at heart a royal- 
ist or "Britisher," was obliged to flee the 
town, leaving his property to the law of con- 
fiscation ; and the town made public use of 
the land, appropriating a part for a street^ 



PROVIDENCE. 



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and perpetuating the man's principles by 
the name of the highway. Indeed, there are 
many sti'eets in the city whose names might 
be taken as texts for entertaining historical 
chapters. Providence i^assed her strong 
non-importation resolutions in 1768. 

Transit Street, leading from South Main 
to Seekonk river, commemorates the transit 
of Venus June 3, 1769, when the observatory 
for the event was here located, and Provi- 
dence was found to be as then reported, in 
latitude 4 1 ° 



50' 41", and 
longitude 71'" 
16' west from 
Greenwich. 
About this 
time an edu- 
cational s o - 
c i e t y w a. s 
f o r m e d in 
Provi d e n c e 
under the 
name of 
Whipple 
Hall. 

In July, 
1775, an en- 
trenched 
work, known 
as Fort Inde- 
p e n d e n c e , 
was thrown 
up on the 
highest crest 
of Field's 
Point, be- 
t w e e n the 
point proper 
and the Cove 
back of Sas- 
safras Point. 
Also an entrenched 




Butler Exchange, Pi evidence. 



work on Sassafras 
Point. Also a battery of six eighteen-pound- 
ers was erected at Fox Point, and, in August, 
1775, Esek Hopkins was appointed to its 
command. 

The Arcade is perhaps one of the most 
unique business edifices in Providence. It 
was erected in 1827-28, at a cost of S145,- 
000, and is situated opposite the Butler Ex- 
change, on "Westminster and Weybosset 
streets, reaching from one to the other, hav- 
ing a front on each and three stories high. 



measuring 74 feet in width by 216 in length. 
The fronts are recessed porticos 15 feet deep, 
composed of six Ionic columns of solid granite 
three feet in diameter and two square antse, 
crowned with a granite entablature forming 
a pediment, having a whole front height 
of 40 feet. The roof over the centre of the 
building is glass, to allow the light to enter 
all the hall and galleries, along which are 
arranged the seventy-eight shops and stores. 
Items. — Paper money was first issued in 
^^ Rhode Island 

-"^^^^i^, in 1710. Seri- 

^^^ ous and in- 

1^^^ structive was 

the histoiy of 
using prom- 
ises as a cir- 
culating me- 
dium for 
property. 

The first 
news paper 
printed in the 
town was the 
Provi d e n c e 
Gazette and 
County Jour- 
nal , estab- 
lished by Wil- 
liam Goddard 
in 1772. 

In 1787 Dan- 
iel Anthony, 
Andrew Dex- 
tei and Lewis 
Peck c o m - 
menced the 
business o f 
m a n uf actur- 
iiig jeans in 
the chambers 
The first spin- 



of the old market house, 
ning jenny built in the United States was 
made by them and had twenty-eight spin- 
dles. In 1790 this machinery was removed 
to North Providence, where, on the arrival 
of Samuel Slater with his improved machin- 
ery from England, began the successful 
manufacture of cotton cloth in America. 

In 1787 trade was opened with China and 
the East Indies, that for half a century 
brought large wealth to the merchants of 
Providence. 



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The Providence Bank was incorporated 
in October, 1791, with a capital of $500,000. 

The Providence Institution for Savings 
was incorporated in 1819. 

Public lamps were erected in Providence 
in 1820. 

In 1790 the citizens of Providence, in a 
petition to Congi-ess, stated Jhat there were 
then here 9 ships, 36 brigs, 45 sloops and 
20 schooners, 110 sail of 10,590 tons burthen 
— more than there were reported in Xe^v 
York. This 



report was 
exclusive of 
river pack- 
ets and shal- 
lops. And 
the com- 
merce of 
Providence 
with foreign 
ports [con- 
tinued to 
flourish till 
near 1830 
Since that 
period t h t 
wealth and 
enter prise 
of the city 
have been 
more laige 
ly devoted Si J: 
to manufac 
tures. 

The fiist 
steamboat 
seen in 
Providen c e 
wastheFiie 



fly, from 'p 



Kew 
that 



York, 
reach- 




Citv Hall, Frov'ideuce. 



mastery of the lightning's tongue. The 
first electric telegraph in Providence con- 
nected the city with Worcester, in February, 
1848. Behold the ends of the earth have now 
come together ; we can whisper with our 
friends in the Indies. What next ? 

The Custom House is a fit type of the 
solidity and permanency of our National 
Union. This fire-proof — granite and iron 
— structure stands fronting on Weybosset 
__^^^ street. Its 

¥;l**^?»«n^te?^^ cost was 

about $225,- 
000, and it 
was first 
opened i n 
1857. Here 
are found 
the Post-of- 
fice, the Cus- 
toms office, 
the Internal 
Revenue of- 
fice, the of- 
fice of the 
United 
States Dis- 
5l trict Attor- 
ney, and the 
United 
States Court 
loom, with 
apartmen t s 
for the 
ludges and 
other of- 
ficials of the 
\ a ti o n a 1 
G o V e r n - 
ment. 

Items. — 
Pre s i d e n t 



ed the city in 1817, and on June 30th brought 
President Munroe. 

The world's progress of late is shown 
by the changes that have come in men's 
methods of signaling. From the days of 
King Philip's War to the close of the Rev- 
olution, Prospect Hill was a beacon station 
that sent alarms by flames of fire to the dis- 
tant hills and towns. Xext followed fast- 
riding couriers over established roads. At 
last, within the present generation, came the 



Hayes, on his visit to the city in connec- 
tion with the meetings of the Grand Army 
of the Republic. June 26-28,1877 — a mem- 
orable and enthusiastic occasion, moving 
the whole city and the State — held his 
reception in the solid mansion on the cor- 
ner of Benefit and John streets, the house 
having been opened, by order of the State, 
purposely for the honor. Some one has said 
that " hospitality is Rhode Island's natural 
theology." 



PROVIDENCE. 



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The first mail arrangements 
in Xew England were intro- 
clviced in 1693. 

In 1767 a stage left every 
Tuesday for Boston. In 17S3 
stages ran twice a week. In 
1775 a post-rider left every Tues- 
day for New London. The turn- 
pike to New London was opened 
about 1820. 

The Great Beacon fire, to give 
warnings to Boston, Newport, 
New London, and Norwich, was 
first fired Aug. 17, 1775. 

The railroads running out of 
the city were opened as follows: 
Providence and Boston road in 
1S35; Providence and Stoning- 
ton road in 1S37 ; Providence and Worcester 
road in 1847; Providence, Warren, and Bris- 
tol road in 1855; Providence, Hartford, and 
Fishkill road in 1855 ; Providence and Spring- 
field road in 1873; Providence and Warwick 
road in 1875. 

The Court House at the corner of Benefit 
and College streets, on the ground of the 
old Town House opposite the Athenfeum, 
was erected by the State and opened with 
impressive services in December, 1877. It 





Park Garden Pavilion, Providence. 

is a beautiful edifice in modern Gothic or- 
der of brick and stone, very thorough in 
its workmanship from foundation to finial. 
Its interior arrangement and finish for 



Narragansett Hotel, Providence. 

various courts and the valuable law library, 
and all court attendants, may challenge 
comparison with any similar edifice in our 
country. The cost of land, building and 
furniture was .$400,000. 

Butler Exchange. — The observed by all 
observers stands the Butler Exchange build- 
ing, between Exchange place and West- 
minster street, reaching from one to the 
other, and having a double front and cover- 
ing an entire square, rising majestically in 
six stories to look down upon many 
old solid business houses. It is of 
brick, stone and iron, yet airy, light 
and elegant. It abounds in business 
places large and small, and in offices 
of various kinds. It was erected by 
Alexander Duncan and named for 
Cyrus Butler. It cost $400,000 and 
stands on ground then deemed worth 
full $500,000. As indicated on its 
fronts it was completed in 1872. 

Items. — In January, 1801, occurred 
the great fire on South Main street, 
which destroyed 16 dwellings, 10 stores 
and 11 out-buildings, inflicting a loss 
of $300,000. The first " water engine " 
for extinguishing fires was procured 
in 1703. 

In September, 1859, the first steam 
fire engines were introduced into the 
The first was the rotary steamer "Wash- 
ington," accepted Sept. 19. On the same day 
was accepted the piston steamer Pioneer. 
Fire alarm telegraphs were introduced in '61. 



city. 



22 



NARRAGANSETT SEA AND SHORE. 



The first horse railroad cars began to run 
in the streets of the city in March, 1864. 




Low's Opera House, Providence. 

The Cove in Providence furnishes special 
proof of change since the days of the city's 
origin. The broad sheet of water then ac- 
commodated sloops and pinnaces, and 
finally became the centre of ship-building. 
From it have been taken first wharves and 
Westminster street, then Canal street; then 
Exchange Place and Cove street; then the 
large ti-acts used by the various rail- 
roads; then Gaspee street; then the 
Cove Promenade and the Cove Lands 
beyond, leaving at last the beautiful 
enclosed elipse of water measuring 
only about a mile in circumference. 
What would the people of to-day say 
to the draw in Weybosset Bridge as 
it existed in the days of the fathers ? 
And what would the fathers say could 
they return and look upon the city of 
more than 100,000 people and listen to 
the ceaseless whistling of flying loco- 
motives ? As late as 1803 there was 
an island in the north end of the Cove 
near Smith street, called Green Island. 

That Providence early had a vigor- 
ous commercial interest and both 
dared and suffered in the colonial 
wars, is shown by the fact that be- 
tween 1756 and 1763 she lost forty- 
nine vessels by the enemy and six- 
teen by disaster. 

In the gale of September 23, 1815, 
the WeybossetBridge was carried away 
and a large number of vessels, includ- 
ing four ships, were driven by the 



wind and flood to the head of the Cove. 

Among them was the great ship Ganges, 
commanded by Capt. Joseph 
Herlitz. As she f ui-iously sped 

■■ ^ ^ on her way her bowsprit per- 

forated the third story of the 
Washington Insurance Com- 
pany's building. As an effect 
of the gale the whole water 
front of the city had to be re- 
constructed, and happily in 
the end it was much enlarged 
and improved. 

The City Hall in Providence 
is perhaps the best index of 
the growth of the town in its 
wealth and strength, from the 
day when five men led by an 
exile landed on What Cheer Rock, and the 
dark day when, after the burning of the 
town by the Indians, the annual town 
meeting was held June, 1676, " before 
Thomas Field's house, under a tree by the 
water side." It stands conspicuously on 
Exchange Place, and cost, in round figures, 
$1,000,000, and was dedicated with due form 




Soldiers' Monument, Exchange Place, Providence. 



PROVIDENCE. 



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and parade November 14, 1878. Xo city has 
a finer public building. Our illustration will 
indicate its exterior to the eye ; but its in- 
terior must be minutely observed to be appre- 
ciated. It occupies an entire square, bounded 
by Dorrance, Eddy, Washington and 
Fulton streets. It is of finished granite in 
an ornate style of architecture, with majestic 
facade and surmounted by a graceful dome. 
The contrast between this and the Old City 
Building on Market Square is very impres- 
sive and reveals the growth and progressive 
spirit of the city. 

Hundreds of beautiful cottages and ele- 
gant mansions in and around Providence 
fully i n - 
dicate the 
taste and 
wealth of 
the citi- 
zens. Per- 
haps no 
America ii 
city can 
boast a 
greater 
propor- 
tion of 
rich and 
substan- 
tial edi- 
fices. And 
the secret 
of the 
growth 
and afflu- 
e n c e of 
the city 
is to be 




Infantry Armory, South Main Street, Providence. 



found in the large and costly factories with- 
in and about the bounds of the town, filling 
the air with the hum of steam engines and the 
streets with freighted carriages. It would 
require a volume to describe these industries. 

The State Prison speaks of great changes in 
society. The first real prison in Providence 
seems to have been erected in 169S-C. Another 
and larger was constructed in ITO.5. As the 
history of these buildings is not an enter- 
taining topic, we pass to state that after 
various experiences, like those of other com- 
munities, the jail of Providence, the sixth in 
order of time, was united to the State Prison 
structure that was built across the Cove on 



" Great Point," in 1838. But during the year 
1878 a State Prison was completed on an 
improved plan in Cranston in connection 
with the State Farm. Thus our penal and 
reformatory institutions are brought nearer 
together. 

The first pair of stocks in Providence were 
ordered in 16.5.5 at a cost of £14. 

Meeting street was once known as Jail 
Lane, as on the north side of it, in about 
1733, was erected the third jail building of 
the town. Our oldest citizens remember the 
four rows of Lombardy poplars reaching 
from the front of the State House across the 
parade to North Main street, and mention 

the fact 
that to 
one of 
these pop- 
1 a r s cer- 
tain crim- 
inals were 
tied by 
^ their 
hands and 
whip ped 
by the 
s h e r i f f . 
_ They also 
^j recall the 
I I pillory 
; 'f ]^ that stood 
^w~^ onthecor- 
' ' iier on the 
-vest side 
■ ^_^ o f North 
,. ^°* I M a i n 
street, 
nearly op- 
posite the parade, and describe the appear- 
ance of culprits suffering that form of pun- 
ishment. 

Capital punishment in Rhode Island was 
abolished in February, 1852. The last three 
persons who suffered the death penalty by 
statute were Amasa E. Walmsley, June 1, 
1832, for slaying John Burke and Hannah 
Frank, in Burrillville, Sept. 11, 1831 ; Amos 
Miner, July 5, 1833, for killing John Smith, of 
Foster, June 20, 1832 ; John Gordon, Feb. 14, 
1845, for murdering Amasa Sprague, of Cran- 
ston, Dec. 31, 1843. 

Hope Reservoir, bounded by Thayer, Olney, 
Brown and Barnes streets, near the summit 



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Silver Lake, Roger Williams Park, Providence. 



of Prosiject Hill,'is iu itself a grand proof of 
the wealth aud wisdom of Providence. The 
basin with lofty embankments and grounds 
covers eighteen acres and cost $250,000. The 
depth of the water is twenty feet. The edi- 
fice and furnishings of the pumping station, 
built in 1872, at a cost of 8120,000, a model 
of beauty, and the engines (a Corliss aud a 
Gardner) are marvels of art. But this reser- 
voir only supplies the highest points of the 
city. The great reservoir and pumping en- 
gines for supplying the whole city are near 
the Pawtuxet river in Cranston, and known 
as the Sockanosset Reservoir and the Petta- 
conset Pumping Station. Pawtuxet water 
was first brought into the city in December, 
1871. 

Public Houses are a revelation of .the life 
and progress of the people. Inns, ordi- 
naries and taverns, were the terms used by 
our plain fathers when speaking of public 
houses of entertainment. An instructive 
chapter would that be that should describe 
for us the first taverns of Providence, and 
modes and customs prevailing in them; such 
houses as that kept by John Whipple, Capt. 
Joseph Olncy on Olney street, or by Col. 
Knight Dexter, or by Elisha Brown on the 
upper portion of Xorth Main street, nearly 
opposite the present Fourth Baptist Church, 
near Joseph Turpin's house, where once 
met the General Assembly. Those were the 
days when the people had " but little crock- 



ery, and that of a coarse kind ; pewter and 
wood were the principal table furniture. 
Two would be often eating out of the same 
dish, and perhaps a dozen drinking out of 
the same pewter quart pot or earthen 
mug." " The dress iu general was meant to be 
durable ; men with mostly wash-leather 
breeches." " Women would visit each other 
with a clean checked apron, a striped loose 
gown, a handkerchief over the shoulders, 
and a sun bonnet." 

Persons yet living may tell you about the 
Manufacturers' Hotel, and the lines of stages 
that came thundering in from Boston, Wor- 
cester, Newport, via Bristol Ferry, aud New 
York via Xew London. It stood on the east 
side of North Main street between College 
and Waterman streets, on the spot occupied 
by the present What Cheer Building. From 
the balconj' of this old inn, standing certainly 
as early as 1726, was read to the people the 
proclamation of the accession of George II ; 
and also that of the accession of George III; 
and, in due time, in 1776, the Declaration of 
Independence, followed, iu 1783, by the Dec- 
laration of Peace; and lastly the reading 
of the adoption of the Constitution by Rhode 
Island in 1790; historic glory enough for one 
balcony. 

Some maj" have traditions of Montgomery 
Inn (its sign a head of General Montgomery) 
at the top of Constitution Hill, between 
North Main and Stampers street, kept after 
the Revolution by Maj. Simeon Thayer. 



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But we hasten to glance at some of the 
public houses now amongst us. 

The Mansion House is now the oldest 
public house in Providence. It was 
opened in 1784 under the name of Golden 
Ball Inn — its sign being a golden globe. 
It stands on the corner of Benefit and 
South Court streets, nearly opposite the 
State House. Here Washington was su- 
perbly entertained on his visit in August 
1790. Here also President Munroe was 
received June 30, 1817. And the old 
citizens proudly remember that here, 
too, the nation's guest, Lafayette, was 
entertained on his visit to the town in 
August, 1824. 

Providence at last has a public house 
that will rank with anything of the kind 
in the country. This is the Narragansett 
Hotel, standing on Broad, Dorrauce and 
Eddy streets, fronting on Dorrance, 
seven stories high, of brick, iron and 
stone. Its tasteful and sumptuous in- 
terior and furnishings fully compare 
with the solidity and grandeur of its ex- 
terior. It was first opened April 15, 
1878. The other important public houses 
are the City Hotel, on Broad street • 
Aldrich House, on Washington street ; 





Betsey Williams House, at Roger Williams Park., 



Roger Williams Monument, at Roger Williams Park. 

Perrin House, on Washington street; Thayer 
Hotel, on Union street; Central Hotel, on 
Canal street; Washington Hotel, on Wash- 
ington street; Providence Hotel, on North 
Main street ; Clarendon Hotel, on North Main 
street ; and the new, long, five storied, beau- 
tiful brick and stone Hotel Dorrance, on Dor- 
rance street, near the City Hall. 

Providence has now her fine public build- 
ings and her princely business blocks. We 
give a catalogue of a few of the principal : 
Arnold Block ; Bank Bviilding ; Barton 
Building ; Barnaby Building ; Boston Store 
Building ; Brownell Building ; Burgess 
Building ; Cheapside Building ; Columbia 
Elevator ; Durfee Building ; Dyer Street 
Land Co. Building ; Dorrance Building ; 
Day Building ; Daniels Building ; Equitable 
Building ; Elizabeth Building ; Fletcher 
Building ; Goddard Building ; Hoppin 
Homestead Building ; Howard Building ; 
Hall's Building ; Hay Building ; Lewis 
Building ; Lyceum Building ; Music Hall ; 
Merchants National Bank Building ; Owen 
Building ; Phoenix Building ; Richmond 
Building; Reynold's Building; Tefft Block; 



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Vaughn Building: Wilcox Building: Weybos- 

set Building: Weedeu Building: What Cheer 

Building; AVa viand Building: Wheaton & 

Anthony Building: Westminster Block; 

Washington Building. 

The Narra- 

gansett Trot- — --^S^^Sf^^^^^' ^.,=^«"I] 

ting Park is a ^^1 ^--- - --- — ^r- ±^--^ 

recent devel- ^f^ 
opment. While 
the Xarragan- 
s e 1 1 pacers, 
that gave such 
reputation t o 
Ehode Island 
in the last cen- 
tury when the 
demand w a s 
pressing f o r 
post riders and 
couriers, a r e 
now less 

known, the passion for equine blood and 
speed has not wholly subsided in the 
veins of the Ehode Islanders. Locomotives 
have not crowded all the fast horses out of 
the country; and our fast age must have 
its representatives in gentlemen of the turf 

To such as are in- 
terested we need 
only say that the 
Nari'agansett Trot- 
ting Park is just 
outside of the city 
on the line of the 
ninth ward, and be- 
tween West E 1 ni - 
wood and the 
Cranston Print 
Works, where are 
found grounds and 
accommod a t i o n s 
for all high-bloods. 

The Park Garden 
Pavilion deserves a _ 
passing notice. In — 
all countries a n d 
a g es, recreations 
and amusements 

have had a rank in human affairs. In cities, 
especially, social entertainments have had 
their prominent place. As in families, so 
in societies, reunions animated by the festal 
board and choice music, will doubtless con- 



tinue so long as we are a social and pros- 
pered race. 

For society reunions and party gathei-ings 
Providence has not only her favorite locali- 
ties on the shores of the bay, but also within 

the limits of 

^^^^^Sasii^Br^T- tli6 city, such 

^" ~ "^'^^=^ ^'^^^^^^^^^^^^"''^ as the Sans 

~"^ S o u c i on 
Broadway, and 
tlie ample, un 
d u 1 a t i u g , 
•^lladed. lake- 
dotted Park 
Garden, with 
1 1 s large a n d 
inviting Pavil- 
ion, located on 
Broad street, 
iv* Low's Opera 
" House p r e - 
sents a phase 
The first plays pub- 
Eugland were bv 






Friends' School, Hope Street. Providence. 

of city life and manners, 
licly performed in Xew 
David Douglas and his company in Newport 
in 1701. and at Providence in 1762. Douglas 
was a Scotchman, and he "brought with 
him the first (.ompinv of players that ever 
performed in Xorth 
America. He 
reached this coun- 
try near 175S." He 
c a m e from Vir- 
ginia to Newport. 

The performance 
in Providence was 
on Meeting street, 
east of Benefit 
street. For vari- 
ous reasons this 
theatre was soon 
suppressed. But 
before the close of 
the century new 
boards were \\\) and 
became popular. — 
Some exhibitions 
were held in the 

I "^e Streets. 

Court(State)House. 
In 17l>o a theatre was erected by proprie- 
tors on the corner of Westminster and Math- 
ewson streets, the site now adorned by Grace 
Church. This remained till 1832, when it 
gave way] for sacred purposes. A theatre 




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27 




b^^-'^ -^^j 



Butler Hospital for the Insane, North Street, Providence. 



on Dorrance street, uear Pine street, erected 
in 1839 at a cost of $20,000, was destroyed by 
fire Oct. 25, 1844. 
With later 
expendi- 
tures and 
p e r f o 1 ni- 
ances o t 
play loveis 
the present 
generation 
ai'e famil- 
iar. T|li e 
histrio u i c 
is now 
enacted 

chiefly at the Providence Opera House, ad- 
joining the Narragansett Hotel on Dorrance 
street, and Low's Opera House, "a large 
and very conveniently and safely built struct- 
ure" fi'onting on Union street. 

"Alas tor him who never sees 
The stars shine throug-h his cypress trees." 

The North 
Burying - ground. 
— This oldest 
spot of public 
sepulture in 
Providence lies 
between P a w - 
tucket and 
Smithfield a v e - 
nues,in the north 
part of the city. 
The first grounds 
were set apart in 
the year 1700 ; 
they have since 
been very much 
enlarged and 
greatly improved 
and adorned by 
art. After pri- 
V a t e grounds 
were abandoned 
on account of the 
growth of the 
town, t ]i e ma- 
jority of the citi- 
zens found their 
final rest in what 




Providence High School, Summer Street. 



they called the North Burying-ground. Some 
churches and societies selected grounds on 
the west side of the town, such as the West 



Burying-ground (no longer a place of inter- 
ment), Grace Church Cemetery, and Locust 
Grove Cemetery. 

Swan 
^^ ^^^^^ 'P o i n t 

C emetery 
is a more 
locentCity 
of the 
Dead, and 
ill cost and 
beauty it is 
much like 
a city. It 
is found in 
the north- 
eastern corner of Providence, north of But- 
ler Hospital on the shores of the Seekonk 
river, and is named Swan Point Cemetery 
from its southern point that stands boldly out 
on the shore. An abundance of native trees 
adorn the ample, undulating grounds. Taste 
and wealth have here been lavished in 
avenues, tombs, 
mausoleums, 
monuments, fig- 
ure s, symbols, 
curbings, foun- 
tains, shrubs and 
flowers. Beauty 
has done its best 
to dress the grave 
and point to 
brighter homes 
above. The cor- 
poration dates 
from 1847. The 
present genera- 
tion has alto- 
gether outdone 
"Old Mortality." 

'' And sculpture in her 
turu 

Gives bond in stone and 
ever-during- brass 

To guard them and im- 
mortalize her ti'ust. " 



Soldiers' and 
Sailors' Monu- 
ment. — Memo- 
rial of the patri. 



otism and sacrifices of Rhode Island in the 
hour of our country's deepest trial, now 
stands conspicuously on Exchange Place the 



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NARRAGANSETT SEA AND SHORE. 



granite and bronze soldiers' and sailors' 
monument, erected by the State at a cost 
exceeding $75,000, and solemnly dedicated 
with tender, tearful services Sept. 16, 1871. 
It will be remembered to the honor of 
the commonwealth, and in keeping with 
her old spirit of liberty, that Rhode 
Island's roll of volunteers for the de- 
fence of the Union and the overthrow of 
the rebellion, numbered 24,042 men. Of 
these, by sword and sickness, 1,513 laid down 
their lives for their country. The names of 
the martyrs are on the bronze tablets of the 
monument. The structure was designed by 
Mr. Randolph Rogers, of Rome, Italy. 

"We cannot forbear quoting some of the 
lines of Mrs. Whitman's Memorial Hymn: — 

" Sons of Rhode Island, your record shall stand 
Graven on tablets of granite and bronze ; 

Soldiers and sailors beloved of our land, 
Darlings and heroes, our brothers and sonss 

Gray-bearded heroes, and beautiful sons! 
Soldiers and sailors, the flower of our land, 

Deep, as on tablets of granite and bronze 
Graved on our hearts shall your bright record 
stand."— 

The First Light Infantry Armory is an in- 
dex of the city's growth. Providence has 

never been 

wanting in 

a military ^ 

spirit a n il 

purpose, 

From t h ( 

days 

King's Gai 

r i s o n on 

Stampei s 

Hill and tlu 

garrison a t 

William 

Field's 

house in 

Philip's 

War, duiuiL, 

all t h L 

French and 

1 n d i an 

strifes, sin 

was read} 

with men 

and means 

to do a n d 

dare for the rights of men. 

At the opening of the Revolution, not con- 
tent with her older form of militia, she or 




Rhode Island Hospital, Providence 



ganized her volunteer companies. In 1774 
were organized the Cadet Company of 
Artillery ; the Light Infantry Company ; the 
Grenadier Company; the Providence Fusi- 
leers, and a Company of Horse. In 1775 the 
Fusileers and Cadets combined and formed 
the United Train of Artillery. 

The present First Light Infantry was in- 
corporated by charter May 11, 1818. They 
were in line with ball and cartridge to sup- 
press the mob in September, 1831. They 
were prepared with carti'idge box and bayo- 
net for the support of law and order in 1S42. 
They were the first to spring to duty and 
march for the defence of our Union in the 
rebellion. Most noble records of men and 
deeds they can show us. And they are now 
regarded as the elite of our military force, 
and the pride of the city. 

The new Armory on South Main street be- 
tween Planet and Hopkins, will be an honor 
to the command. The edifice now being 
constructed will cost §60,000. The cost of 
the land was ^80,000. Their old Armory 
building is still to be seen on Meeting street 
east of Benefit. 
We have mentioned the United Train of Ar- 
tillery. This 
company 
took part in 
the battle of 
Rhode Isl- 
and August 
29, 1778, 
using four 
field pieces, 
which r e - 
mained i n 
the posses- 
sion of the 
company 
till 1842. 
The roll and 
record o f 
this c o m - 
mand being 
full of brave 
names and 
deeds ought 
to be fully 
written. 
The Provi- 
dence Marine Corps of Artillery was or- 
ganized in 1801 by the Providence Society. 
They had heavy iron cannon and wore short 



PRO VIDENCE. 



29 



swords. During the Dorr war they were 
armed with muskets. In 184S the com- 
mand was resolved into flying artillery, the 
only battery of the kind in the United States 
outside of the regular army. In 1860, under 
Col. Sprague, it became a six-gun battery of 
10.5 men and seventy-three horses. Its activity 
in the Civil War, sending out men and officers, 
would make a brilliant record. Their old 
arsenal on the Dexter Training Ground — so 
memorable in the Dorr War — was outgrown 
and abandoned for their present massive ar- 
mory on Benefit street, that was erected, or 
completed, in 1842. All national and honor- 
ary salutes are usu- ^ 
this 



ally given by 
worthy corps. 

The Providence 
Horse Guards were 
chartered in 1842 and 
used their sabres 
and spurs in the 
Dorr War for the sup- 
port of law and or- 
der. Ever since, but 
especially in s u p - 
pi'essing the Rebel- 
lion, they have held 
their steel and steeds 
ready for a charge 
upon our country's 
foes. 

S 1 o c u m Light 
Guards, first known 
as " Guard of Liber- 
ty, No. 6," were 
foi-med in 1842, and 
"Were guards to the 
State then as they 
have ever been since. 
In 1854 they were 
chartered as the 
Mechanic Rifles. 
Taking a regimen- 
tal form in 1856, Fust Baptist Chmch Noith 
their first Colonel was John S. Slocum. Their 
services by officers and men in the Rebellion, 
and the martyr-death of Colonel Slocum, 
are parts of Rhode Island's cherished his- 
tory. 

Did space permit we might speak of the 
Rhode Island Guards, the Burnside National 
Gviards, and tjie Veteran Association, P. M. 
C. A. 

In 1821 the civic and military spirit of the 




city was happily stirred by a visit from the 
West Point Cadets under command of Major 
Worth, U. S. A., accompanied by a band of 
music, then the best in the country. During 
their stay the cadets encamped and drilled on 
Smith's Hill, where they were visited and 
praised by the thousands. The clear and won- 
drous strains of Willis' Kent-bugle — then a 
new instrument in America— are not yet for- 
gotten. Major Worth led the cadets through 
the manual of arms by motions of the sword. 
Providence has been the seat of a civil 
war. The Dorr Rebellion culminated in 
1842, and though serious for a time it resulted 
in the spilling of less 
blood than bile ; and 
it was fortunate for 
both parties that an 
o 1 d colonial law, 
passed in 1755, had 
been repealed that 
inflicted upon every 
offence of swearing 
the penalty of " five 
shillings or three 
hours in the stocks." 
But Rhode Island 
immediately laid 
aside her old 
charter of Charles 
II and adopted, in 
November, 18 4 2, 
her present consti- 
tution. 

An "Algerine" 
of i> o e t i c aspira- 
tions, yet entirely 
devoid of a just 
fear of the " sa- 
cred nine" and 
of the party o f 
progress, thus cele- 
brates the close 
of the war : — 
Main street Piovidence 

" Laban Wade with his briRade, 
And Landers with his cannon, 
From Acote's Hill through Burrillville 
They ran — and ran — and ran on." 

Roger Williams Park has already become a 
centre of attraction. On the twelfth day of 
February, 1872, the city of Providence ac- . 
cepted the bequest of Betsey Williams, great- 
great-granddaughter of Roger Williams, giv- 
ing to the city above one hundred acres 



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NARRAGANSETT SEA AND SHORE. 



that once belonged to Roger Williams, to be 
forever kept as a public park, to be known 
as the Roger Williams Park. These lands 
lie between Broad street and Elmwood 
avenue and south of the old road-bed of the 
Providence and Stonington Railroad, in the 
ninth ward. Diversified naturally by forest, 
plain, slope and lake, the tract has now been 
artificially laid out and put under improve- 
ments that promise to make the park one of 
great worth and beauty. It is also contem- 
plated to enlarge the grounds by pur- 
chase vmtil the park shall include Field's 
Point. 

Visitors will be repaid for ascending Pros- 
jject Hill to Congdon street, where they will 
find a superb 
spot called 
Prospect T e r - 
race, graced by 
an artistic foun- 
tain and a lofty 
flag-staff. This 
look-out c o m - 
niands a grand 
view of the 
north and west 
portions of the 
city. 

The Roger 
Williams Mon- 
ument is now a 
part of the 
city's pride. 
History will 
finally justify 
true and noble 
men. So Provi- 
dence at last 
has her superb 
bronze sta t u e 
in honor of her 
founder. T h e 
monument, de- 
signed by Franklin Simmons, of Rome, was 
erected by the city of Providence at a cost of 
$20,000, and dedicated with song, prayer and 
oration Oct. 10, 1877. It stands on the im- 
proved plateau in the park. The bronze 
female figure in front of the monument writ- 
ing the inscription is the personification of 
History performing her just task. Thus in 
" ever-during brass " the old exile stands on 
his granite foundation of honor. 




Beneficent Congregational Church Broad Street, Providence. 



To fulfill the conditions of the will of Bet- 
sey Williams in giving the park, the city is 
now erecting a second monument of granite, 
to cost not less than $500, to be placed in the 
old Williams Bui-ying-ground within the 
park. 

The Betsey Williams House is humble but 
valued. Noble deeds bring honor to hum- 
blest names and lowliest dwellings. Piously 
preserved in Roger Williams Park and near 
the Roger Williams Monument, on its old 
foundations, and in all its original simplicity 
is the Betsey Williams House, so named be- 
cause the owner gave her house and estate 
to the city for the Park, in honor of her an- 
cestor and in love for the city and State 

founded by 
i| him. Th e 
house was 
erected in 1775. 
The humble, 
devout woman 
died November 
27, 1871, aged 
eighty-one 
years five 
months. The 
city has now 
ordered a 
monument t o 
adorn her 
grave in the 
Williams Ceme- 
tery on the 
west margin 
of the park. 

Beneath the 
angel face and 
wings © f a 
slate tomb- 
stone in the 
Williams Bury- 
ing-grouud w e 
read: — 



Here lies the Body of 

Joseph Williams, Esq. 

Son of Koger Williams, 

Esq ; who was the First 

White Man that Came to 
Providence ; he was Born 
1644, he died Au 17th, 1T24, 
in the 81st Year of his Age. 

In King Philip's War he eouragiously went through 
And the native Indians he bravely did subdue ; 



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j\nd now he's g-one down to the Grave & he will be 
no more 
Until it Please Almig-hty God his Body to restore 
Into some proper Shape as he thinks fit to be 
Perhaps like a Grain of Wheat, as Paul sets forth 

you see. 
Corinthians 1st Book 15th Chapt. 37th Verse. 

" To-day the plant by Williams set, 
Its summer bloom discloses ; 
The wilding- sweet brier wears to-daj' 
Its crown of cultured roses." 

^rown University. — This venerable seat of 
learning, the first college in the history of 
mankind founded on the broad Christian prin- 
ciple o f perfect 
religious liberty, 
incorporated in 
1764, was opened 
;a s Ehode Island 
-College in Warren, 
under Rev. James 
Manning, D. D., 
but was removed 
to Providence in 
1770. Its grounds 
are on the summit 
of Prospect Hill, 
bounded by Pros- 
p e c t , Waterman 
and George streets. 
I n consideration 
of the munificence 
of Nicholas Brown, 
who gave to it 
first and last 
$100,000, the name 
of the institution 
w a'S changed, in 
1804, to Brown Uni- 
versity. 

The President's 
house stands 
at the head 
of College street. 

The buildino-S as Chestnut street Church, Providence, 

seen from this point looking across the front 
campus, are, beginning at the north, Hope 
College, Manning Hall, University Hall, the 
new dormitory yet to be named, and, lastly, 
Pihode Island Hall. Back of these and be- 
yond the rear campus is the Laboratory 
Building, and will soon stand the beautiful 
Sayles Memorial Hall. On the corner of 
Prospect and Waterman streets is the new, 
elegant fii'e-proof Library Building. East of 




it stands the Rhode Island Historical Society 
Building. It will be remembered that Uni- 
versity Hall was occupied for a time during 
the Revolution by soldiers who drilled on the 
campus, and also as a hospital by the French 
troops. 

The reputation of Brown University 
reaches over all our land and even into the 
remotest parts of the world. Its curriculum 
embraces Moral and Intellectual Philosophy; 
Latin Language and Literature ; Greek Lan- 
guage and Literature ; Mathematics and 
Astronomy; History and Political Economy; 
Civil Engineer- 
i n g ; Chemistry; 
Rhetoric ; English 
Literature and Elo- 
cution; Physics; 
Natural Theology; 
Agricultural Zoolo- 
gy; Physiology; 
Modern Langua- 
ges; Geology; and 
m i n o r branches 
treated bj' lectures. 
The Library counts 
above 50,000 vol- 
umes. A G y m - 
nasium Hall is 
hired in the city. 
A rare and exten- 
sive Museum is in 
Rhode Island Hall. 
A large fund exists 
for aiding indigent 
students and for 
prizes in different 
studies. About 
two hundred and 
fifty students are 
in attendance. The 
President is Rev. 
Ezekiel G. Robin- 
son, D. D. LL. D. 
Names of great honor are attached to this 
seat of good letters — Manning, Maxcy, Mes- 
ser Wayland, Sears, Caswell — and thousands 
are enrolled as Alumni. 

The Rhode Island Historical Society was 
organized in 1822. The building was erected 
in 1844 at a cost of $4,750, by Messrs. Tall- 
man and Bucklin. 

The Friends' School is an important factor 
in the city's history. The proper name of 



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NARRAGANSETT SEA AND SHORE. 



this institution is the New England Yearly 
Meeting Boarding School. It was originally- 
opened at Portsmouth, Rhotle Island, in 
17S4, but did not there flourish. In 1814 
iloses Brown 
offered to the 
society the farm 
on which the 
school is now 
established, a 
tract of about 
fort y-t h r e e 
acres, lying east 
of Hope street, 
between Lloyd 
avenue and 
Olney street. — 
The school was 
here opened in 
January, 1819. 
Its chief bene- 
factors were 
Moses Brown, 
William Almy 
and Obadiah 
Brown; the lat- 
ter gave $100,- 
000, the income 
of which is used 
for current ex- 
pen s e s . The 
course of studies 
embraces not 
only the com- 
m o n branches 
but includes the 
higher dep.art- 
raents of the 
math e ma tics 
and a classical 
curriculum. 

The Athenaeum 
located on the 




First Universalist Cliurch, Green Street, Providence 



corner of Benefit and College streets, oppo- 
site the new Court House, through the be- 
nevolence of Nicholas Brown, Thomas P. Ives 
and others, was erected in 1837, at a cost of 
$19,000, and endowed with a valuable library, 
that has ever since been increasing. The 
property in the books is with shareholders, 
who pay an annual fee. The library com- 
prises the books of the old Providence 
Library, which dated back to 1754. The 
present collection is varied and invaluable, 
counting about 40,000 volumes. 



The Providence Public Library, occupying 
at present ample rooms in the second story 
of the Butler Exchange, was opened Feb. 4, 
1878, with more than 10,000 volumes, and 
now counts 
above 14,000vol- 
umes, accessible 
t o all citizens. 
The books have 
been purchased 
from monies 
contributed by 
the wealthy citi- 
zens, the mer- 
chants and the 
manufac turers. 
This may be re- 
garded as one 
of the highly 
honorable d e - 
velopments o f 
the city. 

The High 
School illus- 
trates the city's 
progress in edu- 
cation. We are 
assured that 
the first text- 
books in the 
commonschools 
o f Providence 
were "the Bi- 
ble, spelling- 
book and prim- 
er" — not a bad 
beginning. In 
May, 1663, the 
town ordered 
"that one hun- 
dred acres of up- 
land and six 
acres of mead- 
ow" " shall be laid out within the bounds of 
this town," "reserved for the maintenance of 
a school," and "shall be called by the name 
of the schoollands of Providence." The first 
notable schoolmaster was William Turpin. 
In 1754 was founded the Providence 
Library Association, but the books were 
burned with the Court House Dec. 24, 1758, 
when a lottery was granted for the rebuild- 
ing of the Court House, a portion of the 
avails of the scheme for the restoration of a 
library. 



PROVIDENCE. 



33 



How Providence has progfressed educa- 
tionally from her little rude school-house 
near Stamper's Hill, may be interred from 
a look at the present High School Build- 
ing, and on examination of the courses of 
study in the primary, intermediate, gram- 
mar and high school departments, in 
which she is thought now to stand second 
to no city in our country. The new High 
School building, on Summer and Pond 
streets, is about 150 feet long by 129 wide, 
and three stories of fifteen feet each in 
height, of brick with stone trimmings. It 
cost with the land about $200,000, and was 
dedicated in the autumn of 1S7S. 

The city counts about eighty schools of 
all grades in more than fifty school- 
houses ; and most of these buildings are 
ornamental and costly, corresponding with 
the taste and wealth of the citizens. 
About 13,000 scholars are enrolled, and 
the annual school expenses reach about 
$220,000. 

Among the beautifvd school-houses of 
Providence are the JacksonA venue School 
House; the Messer Street; the Thayer 
Street; the Federal Street; the Point 
Street ; the State Normal School Building ; 
the Reform School Building (Tockwot- 
ten); and private properties rented for 
special schools, such as Mowry & Goff's 
Classical School, Scholfield's Commercial 
College and Stowell's Business College. 

The Dexter Asylum is a monument of 
philanthrophy. Ebenezer Knight Dexter 
died Aug. 10, 1824, and left in his will $60,- 
000 to Providence, to be appropriated to the 
support of the poor. With a portion of this 
sum, was completed in 1830 the Dexter Asy- 
lum, on a fine tract of land selected by Mr. 
Dexter in his will, located on Hope and 
Angell streets, and protected by a wall eight 
feet high. The building is 170 feet in length, 
of Roman Doric style, surmounted by a cu- 
pola. The grounds comprise about forty 
acres. The first cost was about $43,000. The 
Asylum was really opened in part in the sum- 
mer of 1828, under the superintendency of 
Mr. Gideon Palmer. This is one of the noblest 
charities in the city. 

Butler Hospital is a noble manifestation of 
good will to men. Nicholas Brown left $30,- 
000 for the foundation of this institution. 




K^^^^Uik^' ^ 




\ ^^ 



IM 






Grace Church, A\'estniiuster Street, Providence. 

Cyrus Butler added a gift of $40,0C0, and re- 
ceived the honor of having his name attached 
to the Hospital when it was incorporated. 
The Institution dates from 1847, and has 
now a fund of $85,000. The farm embraces 
140 acres, on the high bank of the See- 
konk river, on the east margin of the city, 
south of Swan Point Cemetery. The build- 
ings are in the middle of this undulating, 
well-wooded, fertile tract. The Grotto in 
the grounds, with its purling brook and 
rustic bridge, is a spot of great beauty. Here 
the insane have great advantages and the 
best of treatment. The first superintendent 
was Dr. Isaac Ray. He was succeeded by 
Dr. John W. Sawyer. 

The Rhode Island Hospital is a revelation 
of the heart of the State. This beneficent 
institution was planted and is conducted on 
a broad and grand scale. It was commenced 
by gifts from Mr. Robert H. Ives and others 




View of the Colleges. 



PROVIDENCE. 



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of that family amounting to $75,000. To this 
were added handsome subscrij)tions from 
wealthy and public-spirited men and women 
in the city and other parts of the State. The 
buildings, located on Eddy street, between 
Lockwood and Dudley streets, were o^jened 
in 1868. For the maintenance of free beds 
a fund has been raised of about $150,000. 
The cut we herewith present will indicate 
the nobility of the institution. Here are 
provided the services of the best of physi- 
cians and surgeons. 

The Home for Aged Women is a beau- 
tiful Christian institution. Benevolence, 
which has a true home in Providence, has 
opened veritable homes for the indigent, or 
those who are left alone. The Home for 
Aged Women, originated by the agency of 
Mrs. Eliza Rogers, and seconded by Drs. 
Wayland, Hall and others, is now a capa- 
cious, well furnished, four 
storied, brick house, erected 
for this purpose on the corner 
-of East and Front streets, near 
the old Tockwotten House. 
It was opened Nov. 30, 1864. 

A Home for Aged Men has 
been provided on the west 
side of the city, but the per- 
manent building has not yet 
been erected. 

Eleemosynary institutions 
are the glory of our age. We 
liave mentioned Dexter Asy- 
lum, Butler Hospital and the 
Rhode Island Hospital. Provi- 
dence has other eleemosynary 
institutions. We have space 
only for their mention: the 
Children's Friend Society 
(1835); the Roman Catholic 
St. Aloysius Orphan Asylum ; 
the Association for the Bene- 
fit of Colored Children (1838); 
the Female Charitable Soci- 
ety; the Providence Xursery; 
the Irrepressible Society; the 
Charitable Fuel Society (1800) ; 
the Society for Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals (1870) ; the 
Union for Christian work ; the 
Young Men's Christian Asso- 
ciation; the Advisory Board 



for City Missions, and numerous lesser associ- 
ations in the churches of various denomi- 
nations. 

The first missionary society formed in the 
United States was the Female Mite Society, 
organized in 1806 among the members of the 
First Baptist Church, in Providence, for 
spreading the gospel in destitute places. 

Of the public worship of the first genera- 
tions of New England an early poet gives 
us an idea: — 

" A stove in their churches or pews lined with green 
Were horrid to think of, much less to be seen ; 
Their bodies were warmed with the linings of love. 
And the Hre was sufBcient that flashed from above." 

The First Baptist Church is one of the first 

objects seen in the city. Pre-eminently his- 
toric is this beautiful edifice. Modeled after 
St. Martin's, London, designed by James 
Gibbs, it perpetuates the memory of Christo- 




Cathedral, High Street, Providence. 



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First Congregational Church, Providence. 

pher Wren. It was completed in 1775. It is 
eighty feet square. Its steeple, 200 feet high, 
in symmetry and proportions still stands un- 
rivaled. The original clock and bell were 
imported from England. The bell, since 
broken twice but twice recast, as it 
loudly rings all jubilations with added silver, 
at first bore the following inscription : — 

" For freedom of conscience the town was first 
planted. 
Persuasion, not force, was used by the people. 
This church is the oldest, and has not recanted. 
Enjoying and granting bell, temple and steeple. " 

The record says the house was erected "for 
the worship of God and to hold Commence- 
ments in " ; and here have been held the an- 
nual observances of the University. Here, too, 
have been held for more than a century the 
principal civic demonstrations of the city. 
What great voices of scholai-s and statesmen 
have rung through the lofty old arches. 
Hon. George E. Burrill here, Jan. 7, 1800, 
pronounced his eloquent oration on the 
death of Washington. Hon. Job Durfee's 
oration on " Human Progress " was here de- 
livered Sept. 6, 1843, 

The body worshiping here was organized 



by Roger Williams in 1639, and has a noble 
list of names, both clerical and lay. Provi- 
dence will never forget Williams, Brown, 
Tillinghast, Manning, Gano, Pattison, Hague, 
Granger, and Wayland. 

The square occupied by the church, 
bounded by North Main, Waterman, Benefit 
and Thomas streets, and adorned with lofty 
elms, may well be the pride of the city. 

St. John's Church. — The present edifice 
belonging to this church was consecrated 
June 11, 1811. It stands on North Main 
street, on the corner of Church street, the 
site of the previous house erected in 1722, 
which had in its pretty steeple the first 
church bell hung in Providence. The first 
Episcopal minister that preached in Provi- 
dence is believed to have been Rev. James 
Honeyman, of Newport, who was aided at 
times by Dr. McSparran. Here Rev. Nathan 
Bourne Crocker, D. D., began as a lay reader 
in 1802, was ordained in 1803, and, with the 
exception of three years, remained rector 
till his death, Oct. 19, 1865. 

The church at first was named King's 
Church, in honor of George I, but in 1794, 
from patriotic considerations, was changed 
to St. John's. 

Beneath this church was buried the cele- 
brated Huguenot, Gabriel Bernon, who died 
Feb. 1, 1735-6, aged ninety-one years. Says 
Arnold, " the first three Episcopal churches 
in the colony owed their origin to his un- 
tiring zeal." 

First Congregational Church. — Prominent 
to all who visit Providence stands the First 
Congregational Church with its lofty steeple, 
on the high ground east of Benefit street, 
between Benevolent and Charles Field 
streets. It was dedicated Oct. 31, 1816, 
rising on tlie ashes of a previous edifice. 
The society worshiping here was embodied 
in 1728, when only two other churches ex- 
isted in the town — the First Baptist and the 
Friends'. It remained a Congregational 
church till 1743, when it began to swerve to 
its present status as a Unitai-iau body. Its 
eminent preachers have been Josiah Cotton, 
John Bass, David S. Rowland, Enos Hitch- 
cock, Henry Edes, and the well-remembered 
Edward B. Hall, D. D. 

The Beneficent Congregational Church. — 
This ecclesiastical body separated for doc- 



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trinal reasons from the First Congregational 
Church March 7, 1743, in the time of the 
Great Awakening in New England. Their 
first pastor was Joseph Snow. Their first 
meeting-house was erected near 1744 on the 
ground occupied by the present edifice, on 
Broad street. The bell, still in use, was 
imported from England near 1760. In this 
house preached, at times, George White- 
field, Robert Sande- 
man, Francis Asbury 
and John Murray, 
representatives of dif- 
ferent theologies. 

The present edifice, 
still beautiful exter- 
nally and internally, 
was built in 1808-9; 
but was improved in 
1836. Lately a fine 
chapel has been added 
in the rear, facing on 
Chestnut street. In 
later years its eminent 
pastors have been 
James Wilson, Mark 
Tucker, and Dr. Cleve- 
land. 

The First Methodist 
Church. — This society 
dates back to 1798. 
Their first meeting- 
house was dedicated 
June 8, 1816. It stood 

on Aborn and Washington streets. The 
second house, on the corner of Clifford 
and Chestnut streets, was dedicated in 
January, 1822. Its steeple was blown down 
in a gale, but has been rebuilt with addi- 
tional beauty. Since the erection of this 
house the Methodists have greatly increased 
in the city. 

The First Universalist Church.— John Mur- 
ray, Elkanan Winchester, Adam Streeter, 
Richard Carrique and others introduced into 
Providence the views and worship of this 
society. Meetings were held in the Old 
Town House till 1821, when the society was 
organized. Their first meeting-house, a fine 
structure of stone, at the corner of West- 
minster and Union streets, was erected in 
1821 at a cost of more than $20,000, but was 
destroyed by fire May 24, 1825. Another 



house was immediately erected at an expense 
of more than $24,000, but was finally sold 
for secular uses in 1870. Their present ample 
and elegant house, on the corner of Wash- 
ington and Greene streets was completed in 
1872. The cost of land and edifice was 
$130,000. 

Grace Church.— Grace Church parish was 
organized in 1829, and the first meetings 




Hotel Dorrance, corner "Westminster and Fulton Streets. 



were held in the " old tin top " edifice on the 
corner of Pine and Richmond streets. The 
first ministers were Samuel Fuller, Jr., Geo. 
F. Hawkins, John A. Clark and Alexander 
H. Vinton. In 1832 they purchased the old 
theatre on the corner of Westminster and 
Mathewson streets, and removing it erected 
their first church edifice of wood in Gothic 
style. The second edifice — the present, free- 
stone, Gothic house —with lofty tower, was 
consecrated in 1846. The cost of land and 
building was about $100,000. The chime of 
sixteen bells was put into the tower in 1861. 

The Union Congregational Church.— This 
organization, which in a sense dates back to 
1758, leading through the lines of five or- 
ganizations, yet preserving an orthodox 
thread, was at last brought into its present 
form by a union of the Richmond street and 



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High street Congregational churches, the 
union being definitively accomplished March 
31, 1871. The beautiful church edifice stand- 
ing on Broad street, and the ample chapel 
adjoining on Stewart street, were dedicated 
June 27, 1872. The cost of land and buildings 
was about $175,000. Rev. Kinsley Twining, 
installed May 1, 1872, served till Nov. 19, 
1875. 

The Cathedral is sure to be widely noticed. 
Roman Catholics first permanently estab- 
lished their forms of service in Providence 
in the year 1827. Till near 1838 the city 
authorities granted to them the use of the 
old town house, when the Church of St. 
Peter and St. Paul was completed, at an 
expense of $12,000. Now their place of wor- 
ship on Broad street is known as the Pro- 
Cathedral. Since 1830 the Catholics have 
greatly increased here, chiefly by immigra- 
tion. 

St. Patrick's Church, on Smith's Hill, 
was consecrated July 3, 1842. Other con- 
gi-egations and institutions of the Holy See 
have since been established. The church 
edifices are large and costly. The members 
of the diocese, under the direction of the 
bishop, are now enthusiastically engaged in 
raising the means for carrying up the walls 
and completing the elegantly-planned and 
well-begun Cathedral. It is located on the 
corner of High and Fenner streets, near the 
junction of Westminster and High streets. 
The design has a very imposing facade, 
with a height of 112 feet from foundation to 
tip of cross, while the two towers will rise 
to the height of 230 feet. 

Various churches might be mentioned 
with special honor. 

Friends' Meeting-house. — This unpretend- 
ing but prized house stands on the corner 
of North Main and Meeting streets, and 
dates back, as to a part of it, to 1726. 
Quakers thankfully took refuge in Provi- 
dence soon after it was founded. George 
Fox preached here in 1672. This led to the 
famous discussion between Roger Williams 
and the followers of Fox. A weekly meet- 
ing was established here as early as 1701, 
and a meeting-house, quite small, was 
built as early as 1704. A second house was 
erected in 1726, a part of which exists in the 
present one. The history of the Friends in 



Rhode Island is a chapter honorable to 
themselves and to the State. 

We can only mention the names of other 
churches that have edifices refiecting credit 
upon the city as well as upon themselves: — 

All Saints' Memorial Church (Episcopal), 
corner High and Stewart streets; Broadway 
Baptist Church; Broadway Methodist Epis- 
copal Church; Broadway United Presby- 
terian Church; Central Congregational 
Church, Benefit street; Church of the Re- 
deemer (Ei)iscopal), North Main street; 
Church of the Mediator (Universalist), 
Cranston Street; Church of Yaveh, corner 
of Providence and Pearl streets; Central 
Baptist Church, junction of High and Broad 
streets; Elmwood Congregational Church, 
corner of Greenwich and Oakland streets; 
Free Congregational Church, Richmond 
street; Friendship Street Baptist Church, 
Friendship street; Fourth Baptist Church, 
corner of Bacon and Scott streets; Hope 
Street Methodist Church, corner of Power 
street; Jefferson street Baptist Church, 
Smith's Hill; Olney Street (Unitarian) 
Church; Park Street Baptist Church, 
Smith's Hill; Plymouth Congregational 
Church, Prairie avenue; Pilgi'im Congrega- 
tional Church, Harrison street; Roger Wil- 
liams Church; St. Aloysius Orphan Asy- 
lum, Prairie avenue; St. John's (Catholic) 
Church, Atwell's avenue; Stewart Street 
Baptist Church; Scotch Presbyterian, Clif- 
ford street; St. Stephen's (Episcopal) 
Church, George street; St. Joseph's (Catho- 
lic) Church, corner of Hope and Arnold 
streets; Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, 
Trinity Square; Union Baptist Church, coi'- 
ner of John and East streets; Westminster 
Congregational (Unitarian) Church, Mathew- 
son street. 

The citizens of Providence sustain about 
eighty places of worship. 

The Population of Providence at different 
periods was as follows: 1636, 6; 1676, 300; 
1748, 4,128; 1776, 4;355; 1790, 6,380; 1825, 
15,941; 1850,41,512; 1870, 68,904; 1875,100,- 
075. 

The Drives are not undeserving of atten- 
tion. Providence has its charming drives, 
and its splendid views from its commanding 
hill-tops. To thoroughly view the city and 
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hours simply, but clays. The 
great thoroughfares of business 
and daily travel are readily 
found by following the tide of 
the populace and improving the 
routes of the street cars. The 
great waves of business life roll 
through Westminster, Broad, 
Dorrance, Weybosset, North 
and South Main, Water, Canal 
and Eddy streets, and Exchange 
Place. The lesser waves surge 
through all the city and espec- 
ially around the manufacturing 
establishments. 

Popular drives for leisure and 
for studying the beauty of the 
city and th-e grandeur of its en- 
vironments, are up Prospect Hill, along 
Prospect, Olney, Hope and Angell streets ; 
around by Central Bridge, up past the But- 
ler Hospital and Swan Point Cemetery ; along 
East Avenue ; down the Pawtuxet pike past 
the North Burying-Ground ; out on Branch 
Avenue to the Douglas Pike ; over Chalkstone 
Hill and Mount Pleasant; through the vil- 
lages and hamlets that adorn the banks of 
the Wanasquatucket; out Cranston street, 
Elmwood and Prairie avenues; down Broad 
street and the old Pawtuxet pike to the vil- 
lage of Pawtuxet; across Point street bridge 
and India bridge to Watchemoket and the 
hills of East Providence. On all tliese, and 
on other highways, we have delightful views 
of city, river, bay and country villas. 

Narragansett Bay, fortunately named for 
'the most notable tribe of Indians that inhab- 
ited this coast, is perhaps, all things consid- 
ered, the fairest arm of the sea on our Atlan- 
tic shore. Voyagers and travelers concede 
to it this high rank. Leaving the Atlantic be- 
tween Point Judith on the west and Seacon- 
net Point on the east, enclosing the island of 
Rhode Island in its arms at the outset, it 
reaches northward into the State about 
twenty-eight miles, and is gemmed with 
charming islands and islets, numbering more 
than thirty large and small, while its shores 
can boast of every beauty of curve and inden- 
tation, and every attraction of field, lawn, 
rock, bank and bluff. 

Its harbor, unsurpassed on the Atlantic 
coast, has often received distinguished 




What Cheer Cottage, Boger Williams Park. 

fleets, and was formerly the home of a 
lucrative foreign commerce. In 1769 oc- 
curred on its waters the first act of violence 
against the British crown, by the inhabitants 
of Newport, in scuttling and sinking His 
Majesty's armed sloop Liberty, and burning 
her boats. And the waters of this bay 
were reddened by the first blood shed in 
the Revolutionary struggle, when, in 1772, a 
company of men from Providence in boats 
captured and destroyed His Majesty's 
schooner Gaspee, of eight guns, com- 
manded by Lieutenant Duddingston, who 
was shot, but not fatally. Rhode Island 
ordered the building of two war vessels, 
which became the first of an American 
navy. Congress, at the suggestion of Rhode 
Island, organized a Continental navy, and 
two frigates, "the Warren, of thirty-two 
guns, and the Providence, of twenty-eight 
guns, were built in Providence and launched 
in May, 1776." 

But any history of this beautiful and 
picturesque bay would be in no small part 
tlie history of the State that now proudly 
holds it in her arms. As to-day its lively 
fleet of sails and enterprising lines of 
steamers — palaces of art — ply to and fro 
upon its blue sparkling waters as shuttles 
through some fairy loom, how great the 
contrast with the time when Roger Williams, 
at the age of seventy-three, pulled his rude 
canoe alone from Providence to Newport, 
to debate question of theology and state 
with George Fox's representatives. 



II. 




Forever throbbing, as the sea. 
The warm heart-pulses of the free ; 
And from the shores by worthies trod 
Ascends yet glad the hymn to God. 




^XLY too long, perhaps, have we 
detained the reader in Providence 
^& from the excursions that so many- 
are anxious to take over the placid 
and island-gemmed waters of Nar- 
ragansett Bay. We shall briefly 
pause at each important point and 
pay at least a flying visit to the numerous 
and widely-famed watering places that adorn 
and enliven the romantic shores. We trust 
our brief historical notices will be found 
alike instructive and entertaining, for we 
everywhere tread historic paths. 

Excursions on the Bay are a part of the 
life of Khode Island. Perhaps no sheet of 
water on our New England coast is more 
alive, through the summer season, with ex- 
cursionists and pleasure pai'ties, than Nar- 
ragansett Bay, as no other affords equal at- 
tractions. While all the people of the State 
must annually enjoy their view of this 
beautiful inland sea and the shores of the 
Atlantic, making sure of their feasts on fish 
and luscious bivalves, great multitudes come 
from all the neighboring states and from 
the distant parts of our country, including 
visitors from other lands, to gaze on the 
tranquil waters, the emerald islands, the 
romantic shores, the ocean-swept beaches, 
and visit our famed Newport, Providence, 
and other historic towns, enjoying withal 
the cosmopolitan society found in the 
numerous hotels, and recovering or rein- 
vigorating their health with the sea-breezes 



and the delicacies of Khode Island tables. 
In short the Bay is a grand thoroughfare of 
the people and a splendid highway of 
pleasurable and profitable excitement for 
the fashionable and the wealthy. 

Steamboats of every size, from the palatial 
ocean-daring lines that ply between Provi- 
dence and Newport and New York, to the 
lighter but beautiful, saloon-like crafts that 
run between the islands, are ever ready with 
every convenience and attraction to serve the 
thousands. Their success as staunch, com- 
modious, well-managed boats, has given 
them a wide and deserved reputation. Ex- 
cursions are frequently made to Block Island 
and Martha's Vineyard, giving to travelers 
a view of ocean scenery, and making them 
acquainted with the majestic roll of the At- 
lantic billows. With a smooth sea — so com- 
mon in the summer — these trips are de- 
lightful and refreshing. Moonlight excur- 
sions are not uncommon, running from Prov- 
idence down the Bay, passing Conanicut by 
the West Passage, rounding Beaver Tail, 
glancing at the Atlantic, and returning by 
the East Passage past Newport and the east- 
ern islands. 

Sassafras Point is the first promontory on 
our right after leaving Providence. Down 
the western shore of Narragansett Bay are 
charming points, rocks,' islets, bays and 
coves. These may be studied as we pass 
down the bay in boats and steamers, or by 
carriage on the famous River road, be- 



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ginning in Providence as the Pawtuxet pike 
and coutinning from Pawtuxet to Warwick 
Light, on Warwick Neck, and beginning 
again at Wickford and stretching on over 
the hills to Xai-ragansett Pier and Point 
Judith. 

Sassafras Point bears its needed light- 
house. West of it lies Old Maid's Cove. 
The sassafras grove that adorned the head- 
land and gave its spicy fragrance to the air, 
long ago bowed before the woodman's axe. 

Field's Point, so named from the former 
proprietors of the land, is alike conspicuous 
and beautiful, jutting out from the the west- 
ern shore of the bay, just below Pro%'idence, 
readily reached by boats and carriages, and 
is a very popular resort in summer for the 
people of the city who wish to secure a 
shore dinner and a sniff of the sea breezes 
without having time to run far down the 
bay. Excursion steamers usually stop at 
this point on their bay-trips. On this 
emiiience stands old Fort Independence. It 
is contemplated uniting this promontory, by 
a suitable purchase of lands and a broad 
avenue, to the elegant grounds now consti- 
tuting Roger Williams Park. The whole 
would make perhaps the most inviting park 
in our country. 

Sqaantum BlufiF on the east shore, is a re- 
soi't sid ijeneris. Squantum is an ancient 
Pokanoket term, and doubtless has some 
savory reference to fish and fun. It is said 
to mean clam-bake. Squanto was the name 
of an old Indian guide. Probably on this 
rocky, romantic promontory, "in the brave 
days of old," were gathered upon tribal 
feast-days — as in the season of corn-earing 
and harvest — or in celebration of victories 
and martial exploits, the sagamores • and 
captains of the natives, to tell how fields 
were won, and chant the honors of the 
great, the while they feasted on tautog, 
scuppaug, quahaug and succotash: not for- 
getting the aromatic pipe and the merry 
dance. 

However, these beautiful rocks project- 
ing into the bay, nearly in front of Ocean 
Cottage, admired for beauty of situation by 
all travelers and excursionists, now hold the 
artfully constructed and arranged bi^iklings 
of the well and widelV'knowu Squantum 
Association, a select, first-class, fashionable, 



perhaps high -blooded, but certainly high- 
minded club, made up of wealthy, intelli- 
gent, influential business and professional 
men. What they here do, and say, and 
sing, may be best known to themselves ; but 
they neither hatch heresy nor concoct 
treason; they only meet for hours, of 
"learned leisure" and for refreshment 
during the enervating heats of summer. 
They have five buildings, including diniug- 
hall, billiard-room, carriage-house, cook and 
store-houses. With caterer and cook they 
are ever ready for enticing spreads, banquets 
and social cheer. Only poets and painters 
may do justice to Squantum Bluff and the 
Squantum Club. 

Ocean Cottage, just below Squantum Bluff, 
on the East Providence shore, is a romantic 
and exceedingly popular watering jilace. 
The abrupt shore, the irregular yet grace- 
ful formation of the grounds — comprising 
about twenty acres — with the shade and 
fi'uit trees, give to this resort a pleasing and 
picturesque aspect. Shore dinners, not for- 
getting the clams, are here always in order. 
Pleasure parties here throng in carriages, 
and the steamers that jily to and fro upon 
the bay. It is reached by a fine four-mile 
drive from Providence, and is on the line of 
the Providence, Warren and Bristol rail- 
road. Xear the eastern entrance to the 
grounds is the school building of the Sisters 
of Mercy. 

Silver Spring is a favorite and well-fur- 
nished summer resort, a little below Ocean 
Cottage. It was opened in 1S69 by Mr. 
Hiram D. Maxfield. previously the popular 
caterer at Eocky Point, who has continued 
to here serve the public in superior style, 
and has won for the place a very high 
reputation. The entertainments have a 
peculiar style and relish. A large bakery 
supplies the bread. Fish and clams are 
ever ready. The extensive grounds, thriv- 
ing trees, and cozy cottages, leased on fair 
terms, make the spot popular and prized. 
Six hundred people may be accommodated 
in the dining hall. Bathing, boating and 
fishing are always in order. Bayden House 
stands on a rock extending from the shore. 
The place is readily reached by carriage, 
boat and rail. 

The name of this resort is borrowed from 



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Field's Point. 



a rare and silver-sti'eamed spring a little 
east of the restaurant rooms, and near a 
venerable elm tree. Around this silver 
spring, beneath the shades of hoary elms 
and oaks were convened the tribal councils 
of the aborigines. Here, in imagination, 
we may still see painted, feather-mantled, 
quill-crested, bow-armed, sachems, sub- 
sachems, sagamores, pow-wows and war 
captains, sitting in solemn or passionate 
conclave and discussing the questions of 
savage empire. Perhaps here you may see 
their resolutions of war in the form of a 
bundle of arrows bound with a snake-skin. 
Or, having agreed to articles of peace, you 
may see the gory warriors smoking the sig- 
nificant calumet. But Hiram will rehearse 
to you all these wonderful legends. 

Silver Spring is in East Providence, and 
a part of the tract purchased of Massasoit 
in 1641. East Pi'ovidence, as now known 
by its limits and name, dates only from 
March 1, 1862. Its former name was See- 
konk. Of Seekonk and Old Eehoboth, the 
old names of this region, volumes might be 
written. It was over the soil of this town, 
then in dispute as to jurisdiction, that 
Koger Williams passed on his wanderings 
to Providence. When the settlers here first 
established worship "they beat the drum to 
give notice of the time for public worship." 
Bridges connecting this town with Provi- 
dence were built in 1793, but were swept 
away in the September gale of 1815. Wash- 
ington Bridge was built by John Brown, 
Esq., and graced by a wooden statue of 
Washington. 

Pomham Rocks were so named from Pom- 
ham, a local sachem of the region now 
known as Warwick, who, if all accounts are 



true, was a somewhat hard character. He 
fell in fight with the English in 1676. The 
hard, wave-beaten rocks lying a short dis- 
tance from Silver Spring shore bear the 
name of this savage, war-smitten Narragan- 
sett sub-chief. His name, therefore, will 
not perish. Here stands a much-needed 
and well-ordered Government light-house to 
point the keels of commerce and pleasure 
on their way. The rocks are now the prop- 
erty of the United States, 

Cedar Grove is reached by a run of five 
miles by boat or carriage from Providence, 
and a five minutes' walk from the station on 
the Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad. 
The spot is so named from the numerous 
cedars here found. Near 1867 Mr. Follet 
leased about fifty acres of land — fifteen de- 
voted to farming — and erected the hall in 
which six hundred persons can dine at a 
time, while above there are private rooms 
for boarders. Next followed tea room, ice 
cream saloon, grocery store, dance hall, 
bowling alleys, a dwelling house and all 
suitable structui'es. This is a notable place 
for tents and cottages. The Cedar Grove 
House is near the Riverside Wharf. All 
shoreside advantages are here furnished, 
and beautiful views ai'e had of Prudence 
Island, Rocky Point, Warren and Bristol 
and other points in the bay. 

Riverside Hotel has a brief chapter of 
histoi-y. Soon after 1870 an association of 
gentlemen, styled the " Riverside Land Com- 
pany," secured in the southern part of East 
Providence, on the bay above Bullock's 
Point, a large tract of land, including Cedar 
Grove, and improved it at much cost. The 
Sherman Place was changed into Pleasant 
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estates were laid out with taste. The new 
Eiverside Hotel cost about $40,000, and is 
counted the largest hotel on the eastern 
shore of the bay; it will accommodate 180 
boarders. lu front of the hotel was con- 
structed a wharf at great cost, measuring 
thirty-three feet in width and 1,150 feet in 
length. 

The Elliott Hotel stands about half way be- 
tween the Riverside Hotel and Landing on 
the north, and Bullock's Point on the south, 
and is named from its proprietor. Besides the 
shore dinners at the house, visitors may find 
large grounds for camping purposes and be 
furnished with tents and cooking utensils. 
The place is reached by a walk of ten min- 
utes from Riverside Landing, or from Bul- 
lock's Point. Over this spot breathe freely 
the salubrious airs of the bay. 

Pawtuxet was the domain of Soconoco, a 
sachem of the Narragansetts. In the Indian 
tongue the name signifies " a place of water 
fall," and refers to the falls in the Pawtuxet 
River, which run through the place, leaving 
the village to the south of the river in War- 
wick, and on the north side of Cranston. 

Pawtuxet is a village "beautiful for situa- 
tion." In its early history people of wealth 
and culture here found their select homes, 
and the Annual Fair, held on the Fair 
Grounds, overlooking the bay, was noted 
far and wide. But as the old families be- 
came scattered, the place gradually degene- 
rated, till it acquired the name of "Sleepy 
Hollow." For several years past, however, 
and particularly since the establishment of 
horse-car communication with Providence, 
it has awaked to considerable activity; and 
the past year — 1S7S — marked another pro- 
gressive step, viz. the introduction of gas. 
The view of the Pawtuxet River from the 
village is very fine. Winding its course in 
and out between wooded banks, it presents 
many picturesque scenes, and through the 
Summer months, especially on moonlight 
nights, pleasure parties seek it from far and 
wide. Just in front of the village, and con- 
nected with it, a bold promontory called 
" Pawtuxet Neck," puts out in the bay, rising 
at one point into a sightly eminence known 
as "Fort Hill," in honor of the old revolu- 
tionary fort erected there. Fort Avenue ex- 
tends from the north to the south end, and 



here, overlooking the bay, business men 
from Providence have built their Summer 
homes. 

Cherry Grove, or Camp White, was opened 
as a summer retreat in 1870, and is about 
half a mile from Cedar Grove. Visitors may 
reach it by the boats stopping at Bullock's 
Point Landing. Here are about twenty cot- 
tages, and ample grounds for camping 
parties. Inducements are found for visitors 
in the half of a mile of hard sandy beach, 
good bathing facilities, and boats for fishing 
excursions. As at other places, there are 
provisions for beasts as well as for men. 

Bullock's Point is near six miles from 
Providence, on the extreme southern point 
of East Providence that is known as Bul- 
lock's Neck, an elevated peninsula com- 
manding a charming view of Narragansett 
Bay, its islands and sliores. Hei'e are supe- 
rior advantages for bathing, boating and 
fishing. The hotel at Bullock's Point is 
called the What Cheer House, and has ex- 
cellent arrangements for guests. At hand 
are about 200 acres of fine shaded grounds 
for camping. Here, also, are cottages for 
rent. Boats are always stopping at the land- 
ing. 

Gaspee Point has its patriotic memories. 
Rhode Islanders will jjatriotically explain to 
you why the little promontory, on the AVar- 
wick shore, below Pawtuxet, is called Gas- 
pee Point. They will minutely describe to 
you how a heroic party of men, in eight 
long boats, from Providence, joined by one 
boat from Bristol, about two o'clock in the 
morning of June 10th, 1772, attacked the 
British armed schooner Gaspee, commanded 
by Lieut. Duddingston, and captured and 
burned the craft, wounding, though not 
fatally, the British commander. Here was 
shed the first blood in the great patriot 
strife. 

Turtle Cove indents the shore on the 
south side of Gaspee Point. Old writers 
give us the better name — in honor of the 
ancient lords of the land and bay — of Octa- 
paspatuxet Cove, or as Walling' s map has 
it, "OccuPas Pawtuxet," which ought to 
be satisfactory to Webster and Worcester 
and the Coast Survey. Unquestionably here 
was held many a feast on fish, clams and 
oysters, as the banks of shells may testify; 



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and perhaps here was fought mauy a savage 
battle over the stores of peage. By what 
freak of fashion or of art did this cove ob- 
tain the name of Turtle ? 

Nayatt furnishes us with that variety 
which is the spice of life in watering places 
and summer resorts as well as elsewhere. 
Nayatt Point, on the angle of the town of 
Barrington, where Narragftnsett Bay first 
spreads out into its truly grand proportions, 
is the select spot of summer retreat for 
families and the upper tens of our cities. 
Some of the cottages here are really man- 
sions. A more quiet, healthful, invigorating 
retreat can scarcely be imagined. All are 
interested in maintaining the calm and high 
character of the community. Some reside 
here throughout the year. The boarding 
house is filled by a select party every sea- 
son. Across the bay is Conimicut Point 
It is delightful in the summer to watch tlu 
fleets of sails and steamers that pass be- 
tween these points. Between Nayatt and 
Bullock's Point are the extensive Narra- 
gansett Brick Works. 

Barrington is a part of the old Indian 
territory known as Pokanoket, and wa^ 
purchased of Massasoit, the famous Pot a 
noket sachem, and finally constituted .i 
part of Swansey in 166T. In 1717 it was 
separated from Swansey and became a pare 
of Warren ; but in 1747 it was incorporated 
as Barrington. Its full municipality, how- 
ever, dates from 1770. Its southern point 
has the singular name of Rumstick Neck, 
where serenely stands a Government light. 
Drownville is an attractive village on the 
line of the Providence, Warren and Bristol 
railroad. The gem locality in this township 
is Nayatt. Between Nayatt and Bullock's 
Point is the little cluster of cottages known 
as Anawamscut. 

Mark Rock, on the south of Octapaspa- 
tuxet Cove, was formerly a noted resort for 
pic-nic and pleasure parties, but the build- 
ings were finally destroyed by fire. Latterly, 
however, the place has been somewhat re- 
stored. Below it is Conimicut Point. The 
shores here are beautiful, and the summer 
airs invigorating. Serene enjoyment is se- 
cured to all visitors. The views of the bay 
are delightful. 

The River View House is located below 



Mark Rock, about nine miles from Provi- 
dence and two above Rocky Point, on the 
well-known River Road, near the shore of 
the bay. Before, and on either side of it is 
a fine beach, affording rare facilities for 
bathing. Seventy-five boarders, and especi- 
ally family groups, may be here accommo- 
dated. No doubt larger accommodations 
will soon be provided. 

Long Meadow House, as seen from the bay, 
is a beautiful site ; and the bay seen from it 
is truly grand. It is on the River Road, 
about ten miles from Providence and one 
mile north of Rocky Point. The elevated 
estate comprises about twenty acres sloping 
towards the bay, and is well shaded. 




Sciuantum. 

Through the grounds run the Warwick Rail- 
road. The house will accommodate a hun- 
dred boarders. It is a pleasant retreat for 
old and young. 

The Warwick Club House stands on his- 
toric ground. Warwick was settled under 
the infiuence of the notable Samuel Gorton, 
who first bought lands near Pawtuxet in 
1642 and then removed further south. In 
January, 1642-3, the Gortonites purchased 
Shawomet tract, embracing the most of the 
present towns of Warwick and Coventry, 
for 144 fathoms of peage paid to Miantinomi. 
Pomham was the real sachem. Soconoco 
was the sachem of Pawtuxet. When final- 
ly the Gortonites triumphed over the Mas- 
sachusetts intrigues, the Rhode Island In- 
dians thovight that the whites constituted 
two races, the Wattaconoges— coatmen or 



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coat wearers — and Gortonoges, a superior 
race in tact and power. We accept that tlie 
Warwick Club is composed of Wattaconoges. 
Certain it is that it is a strictly private as- 



of the Continental Steamboat Company ; and 
the whole is now under the energetic man- 
agement of Mr. Frank Mauran. 
The grounds are ample, the eminences high 




Ocean Cottage. 



sociation of manufacturing jewelers and en- 
terprising business men. Perhaps their suc- 
cesses will entitle them to be called Gortono- 
ges, and hence they have located their club- 
house in Warwick, on the River Road, about 
eleven miles from Providence. They own 
the grounds and a fine building with a suit- 
able dining hall to seat a hundred persons. 
Of their councils, wisdom, wit and merri- 
ment, the outside world must be left to 
guess. 

ROCKY POINT. 

Heee we reach the old and notable water- 
ing place on the west margin of the bay — 
indeed known far and wide over our country. 
It is the bold, rocky, wooded point on the 
Warwick shore between Conimicut Point 
and Warwick Neck Light, looking out upon 
Barrington, Bristol, Portsmouth, and Pru- 
dence Island. Nature and art have here 
united to show their charms. 

Though long a place of resort to many, it 
was first opened to the general public by 
Captain Winslow in 1847, who at its opening 
landed 500 persons from his boat. It next 
became the property of Byron Sprague, who 
expended upon it about 8300,000. In 1869 
it was purchased by the American Steam- 
boat Company arid further improvements 
were added at a cost of about $200,000. In 
the winter of 1877-78 it passed into the hands 



and romantic, the forests and groves entic- 
ing, and the beaches and rocks of the shore 
full of attractions. Three hundred boarders 
may be accommodated at the Rocky Point 
Hotel, which is supplied from the large 
farm belonging to the estate. The dining 
hall for shore dinners will seat 1,500 persons. 
Near this is the baking place where 250 
bushels of clams were served up June 28, 
1S7T, when President Hayes visited the place, 
and 20,000 came here by carriages and boats. 
An ice-house at hand will hold 1,000 tons of 
ice. We might also mention the Ladies' 
Reception Room on the lofty rocks ; the pub- 
lic fountain, supplying the best of water; the 
bathing-houses, thoroughly furnished; the 
boat-houses and boats, the barns and sheds; 
the Rocky Point observatory looking over 
all the land and bay ; the cafe, furnishing 
the relishable to all; the menagerie, with 
beasts, birds and reptiles and all curious 
performances ; the camera-obscura for views 
and pictures ; the flying horses, where all 
juveniles must needs take a tilt; the bowling 
alley where men try the scientific hand, and 
the summer theatre that may accommodate 
5,000 spectators, with its bands of musicians 
and performers. 

Near by is the mansion erected by Mr. 
Sprague, on an elevated spot that commands 
a view of Newport, and is now rented to 
visitors. 



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But you must visit Rocky Point to know 
it — our illustrations are but shadows of the 
living realities. 

The spirit of Knickerbocker at the elbow, 
suggests that, since Rhode Islanders have 
never had anything of the sort as an appe- 
tizer, we here insert an easy glee for the 
merry-hearted picnicers. Intentionally it is 
cast in the spirit and favorite metre of the 



a broad view of the bay and its shores, and 
affording unusual facilities for boating and 
fishing. 

Oakland Beach is found on Cowesett — or 
Greenwich — Bay, a beautiful arm of the 
Xarragansett reaching from Warwick Neck 
to East Greenwich and Apponaug. This 
summer resort is about twelve miles from 
Providence and a little way southwesterly 
from Rocky Point, and was opened at a large 




^^t^^a^^. 



^tfJterfrrwtin^^^ 



Silver Spring, 



most ancient songs composed by gifted Nar- 
ragansett and Wampanoag scalds, which 
will sufficiently account for its barbarisms. 
Note : it is to be sung only at shore picnics 
and at 12 m. The instruments for the chorus 
are kettle-drum and Jew's-harp. 

THE SIIOEE GLEE. 

Let g'outy monarchs share their shams 

'Neath silken-wove pavilions ; 
But give us Narragansett clams — 

The banquet foi- the millions. 

Yankee clooclle, etc. 

Along- the Narragansett shore, 

Polite in their salams, sir. 
Sat copper-colored kings of j'ore 

And feasted on their clams, sir. 

Yankee doodle, etc. 

Successor to these doughty kings 

Sits now the Yankee nation, 
And every jolly Yankee sings 

His etam-orous collation. 

Yankee doodle, etc. 

But how each valiant Yankee crams 

We surely need not tell, sir. 
If only you hring- on the clams 

All smoking in the shell, sir. 

Yankee doodle, etc. 

The Warwick Neck House, one mile be- 
low Rocky Point, with which it readily and 
rapidly connects by waiting carriages, is a 
popular and delightful resort, commanding 
4 



expense in 1873. The grounds embrace 
about 116 acres, finely laid out amid shade 
trees, creeks, and miniature lakes. The 
Oakland Beach Hotel is capable of receiving 
a hundred boarders. Here terminates the 
travel of the Warwick railroad. Steamboats 
reach the place by doubling Warwick Neck. 

Item. — Peage, wampumpeage, and wam- 
pum, were the terms of the aborigines for 
money. Instinctively, or from reason, they 
had a just conception of the character of 
money — that it represented accumulated 
labor, and was a substance rather than a 
shadow. Their money was the product of 
skilled and patient labor on rare material. 
The stock was of two kinds: the white, 
semi-pearl stock from the head of the peri- 
winkle ; the black from the head of the qua- 
haug or muscle. Only one piece was fur- 
nished by a shell. The pieces when finished 
were perforated discs one-quarter of an inch 
in diameter and one-sixteenth of an inch iw 
thickness. They were exactly and elegantly 
wrought, and strung on hemp or hair. For 
the stock, Narragansett Bay was the Indian 
Black Hills and the Golden Gate. On these 
shores wrought the native artists. 

The Buttonwoods present an illustration 
of recreative economy. In 1871 the Button- 



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wood Beacli Association purchased a part of 
the old James Greene homestead, and these 
lands on the northern shore of Cowesett 
Bay, between Oakland Beach and Apponaug, 
a fine tract of land, commanding a superior 
view of bay and shore, and tastefully laid 
out the whole as a summer resort for fami- 
lies in cottages and for boarders in the hotel 
shortly erected. Near fifty cottages now 
gem the place. More than a mile of admira- 
ble beach stretches in front. The commu- 
nity is a sort of Baptist colony, yet open to 
the lovers of the beautiful and the good. 
Regular services are held in the fine chapel, 
and a Sunday-school and weekly meetings 
for prayer are maintained. The i:»lace is 
reached by steamboats and by horse cars 
from the railroad station at Apponaug. 




Silver Spring Cottages. 

" Old Buttonwoods," about half a mile west 
of the Buttonwoods Hotel, is a resort where 
shore dinners have been served for half a 
centui-y ; probably the oldest shore resort on 
the bay. Here, in 1840, was prepared and 
shared the famous Harrison feast, in honor 
of the political campaign, when, with clams 
and other suitable provisions, oxen were 
roasted whole. Here the toothsome in clam 
bakes is still supplied. 

East Greenwich deserves honorable men- 
tion. At the head of the broad, beautiful 
sheet of water, bearing the old Indian name, 
Cowesett Bay, "on the verdant hillside at 
whose foot a ripple from the Atlantic min- 
gles with the inland murmur of Masca- 
chugh," stands the serene old town of East 
Greenwich, yet green with many and pre- 



cious memories. The bay was renowned of 
old for quahaugs, oysters, and escalops, and 
the beds and heaps of shells along the shores 
testify to the royal feast of the aborigines 
when yet bears prowled among the rocks 
of the hills and wild cats roamed through 
the forests of Pottowomut Neck. 

Cowesett was purchased in 1639 of Tacom- 
manan, Wasewkie and Namowish. The 
township was incorporated Oct. 31, 1(377. 
Regal expectations ruled when the village 
was laid out with straight, wide streets, bear- 
ing such names as King, Queen, Loudon, 
Duke, and Marlboro. The present Court 
House (on the site of the former one) and 
the jail were built in 1805. Curious scenes 
have here transpired, beginning with the 
days when whipping-posts, stocks and pil- 
lories were in order, and coming 
down to the Dorr War and the 
Rebellion. Kent Academy was 
founded in 1802, but in 1839 was 
opened as the Providence Con- 
ference Seminary. 

The Methodist Church was 
erected in 1831; St. Luke's 
Church was consecrated in 
1834; the Baptist Church was 
dedicated in 1847; the Marlboro 
Street Chapel was erected in 1872. 
The Kentish Guards received 
their charter in 1774. The Free 
Library Building, on P e a r c e 
street, was erected in 1870, one- 
half the cost being paid by Gov. 
Greene. 
Dr. D. H. Greene, the historian of the 
town, assures us that *' there is no place 
in Rhode Island where people in moderate 
circumstances can live so well and easily as 
in East Greenwich." 

To lovers of humorous incidents, the pat- 
riotic Greenwichers, with a twinkle of the 
eye, will tell the good story of Capt. Garree 
— an olive-complexioned Frenchman — a res- 
ident of East Greenwich in tlie Revolution, 
who fitted out, as a privateer, the fifty-ton 
schooner "Felicity," and with her captured 
an English ship with a valuable cargo of dry 
goods, and brought the prize into the har- 
bor, anchoring all safely in the upper end of 
the cove. The mortified English captain, 
alluding to his capture, said he "could have 
borne it with more fortitude ; but to be cap- 



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49 



tured by a d d old squaw in a hog-trongli 

was more than he could endure." 

Pottowomut Neck comes next into view. 
Hon. Job. Durfee, in a note to his What- 
cheer, says that "it would seem that Pot- 
towomut, oi" Pottowamut, signified the jjlace 
•of all the fires, or place where all the tribes 
assembled and kindled their council or fes- 
tal fires. The shell-fish, in which the shores 



The town's first civilized name was Swansey, 
assumed in 1667. It became Warren in 1746, 
so named in honor of Admiral Sir Peter 
Warren, The pleasant and historic village, 
one of the old settlements of the colony, lies 
at the head of Warren Bay, on the east bank 
of Warren river. A charm belongs to its 
old and beautifully-shaded streets. Cole's 
Hotel was built in 1750. Khode Island Col- 




Rocky Point. 



of Pottowomut abound, and the numerous 
remains of Indian feasts found on the iip- 
land, offer additional proof of the correct- 
ness of this inference." As a quiet and 
healthful summer resort, the fair and fertile 
lands of this neck, adorned with tasteful 
field, lawn, forest, and orchard, are remark- 
ably inviting, and have been wisely chosen 
by some of the affluent families of Provi- 
dence. Here they retire from the hum of 
city life to indulge their love of books and 
gratify their taste for the volume of nature. 
The farmers in this region are typical Ehode 
Islanders. 

But let us here leave the western shores 
of the bay for a time until we have glanced 
at the notable places on tlie eastei-n shores, 
running from Warren to Little Compton, re- 
serving for the time even a notice of the 
islands, to which we will presently return. 
So we turn our eyes easterly. 

Warren once belonged to the Wampanoags 
under Massasoit, and the village of Warren 
stands on the site of Sowams, the royal res- 
idence of Massasoit, who here died in 1661. 



lege — now Brown University — was estab- 
lished here in 1765, but was removed to 
Providence in 1770. During the Eevolution, 
May 25, 1778, the town was invaded by Eng- 
lish and Hessian troops, who destroyed 
buildings and much property, even burning 
the Baptist church and parsonage. Warren 
connects with Fall River, Bristol and Provi- 
dence by rail. 

Papasquash Neck, lying between Bristol 
harbor and the Xarragansett Bay, is the 
beautiful and fertile peninsula known by the 
Indian title of Papasquash Neck — in the 
original Indian deed spelled Papasquash, 
and not Pappoose Squaw, as has been sup- 
posed. • This tastefully cultivated neck of 
land has many fine residences, and is the 
home of families and persons distinguished 
in the history of the State. 

Bristol is an old, excellent, historic town 
— a part of the Pokauoket of the Wampa- 
noags — the capital and throne of King 
Philip — lying on the eastern shore and near 
the head of Bristol Bay, on a gentle acclivity. 



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Flying Horses, Rocky Point. 

The main streets intersect regularly at right 
angles, and are shaded with stately trees. 
Here terminates the Providence, Warren and 
Bristol Railroad. The town was settled in 
16S0, and incorporated in 1747. The fine and 
capacious harbor is famed in the history of 
New England commerce as having received 
and sent out staunch and rich keels to the 
old world and the Indies. Dviring the pa- 
triot struggle the town was bombarded by 
Bi'itish men-of-war, and May 25, 1778, suf- 
fered severely by the entrance of an armed 
force that captured citizens and burnt a 
church and other buildings. Here is the 
Rogers Free Library, that cost $20,000, the 
gift of Mrs. D. W. Rogers. Here, also, 
are important manufactories, and inviting 
hotels. 

On the occasion of the bombardment of 
the town by the British ships, Oct. 7, 1775, 
a half-fledged balladist delivered himself of 
ten stanzas, one of which recites the loss: — 

" With all their firing and their skill, 
They did not any person kill ; 
Neitlier was anj' person hurt 
But the Reverend Parson Burt." 

Bristol, be it remembered, was planted 
and trained under Puritan ideas. In its 
early history, prior to 1700, the town meet- 
ings were opened and closed with prayer; 
and whoever left before the closing prayer 
was fined one shilling. Here certainly was 
the form of godliness which puts to shame 
the irreverence of some modern political as- 
semblies. 

The place is reached both by boat and rail. 

Mount Hope, situated on the western shore 
of Mount Hope Bay, about two miles east of 
Bristol, rises near three hundred feet above 



the sea level, and is the historic Montop, 
in the Indian tongue — or Mont-haup — 
the home and royal seat of the celebrated 
Philip of Pokanoket — King Philip, of 
the Wampanoags, known in the Forres- 
tian tragedy as " Metamora, the last of 
the Wampanoags." For many years he 
was a formidable foe of the English set- 
tlers, spreading dismay over all tlie coun- 
try; but was finally killed in 1676 by a 
band largely composed of Indians, under 
command of Captain Benjamin Church. 
From this height the wary Philip studied 
the signal fires of his allies and his ene- 
mies, and gave orders to his swift- 
footed couriers. Below the hill is the 
cherished spring of pure cold water from 
which the savage monarch drank; and near 
by is a rude seat in the solid rock, known as 
" King Philip's chair." Two memorials, set 
by the Rhode Island Historical Society in 
1877, mark these historic grounds. On the 
crest of the eminence is a boulder monu- 
ment inscribed : — 

" King Philip, 
August 12, 1676, O. S." 

Beside the cold spring a massive granite 
block bears the inscription : — 

" In the Miery Swamp, 166 feet W. S. W. from 
this Spring, according to tradition. King Philip 
fell, August 13, 16T6, O. S." 

Arrangements are being matured to make 
Mount Hope a popular summer resort, and 
a pleasing beginning has been made. 

Mount Hope Bfiy is a serene expanse of 
water — an eastern arm of Narragansett 
Bay — between Warren and Bristol on the 
west, Portsmouth on the south, and Tiver- 
ton and Fall River on the east, uniting with 
Seaconnet Bay at Stone Bridge, and with 
Narragansett Bay at Bristol Ferry, where 
sometimes Eolus and Neptune evince much 
passion at the expense of boatmen. Taun- 
ton river empties into this bay at Fall River. 
Over these waters sped Philip's war canoes 
and rang the wild challenge of barbaric bat- 
tle. To the natives, through long genera- 
tions, these waters were alive with salmon 
and shad, while the Taunton river and the 
smaller streams were annually alive with 
alewives, as some of them ai-e in our own 
day. 

Tiverton is a region that was first settled 
in 1680, and incorporated in 1694 under the 



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Plymouth patent; but became a part of 
Rhode Island in 1746. The town took its 
final limits in 1862. To a part of the town- 
ship belonged the old Indian name Pocasset. 
Formerly there were two ferries connecting 
it with the Island of Rhode Island, the An- 
thony Ferry and the Howland Ferry, the 
latter where now stands the Stone Bridge. 
Here Benjamin Howland kept his tavern. 
This town was the birthplace of Gov. Gideon 
Manton. The old hotel, the Stone Bridge 
House, that cost $60,000, is still a popular 
resort, where guests have facilities for fish- 
ing and sight-seeing. 

Seaconnet Bay is a smooth and inviting 
sheet of water, ten miles in length by one 
and a half in average breadth, dividing the 
Island of Rhode Island from the townships 
of Little Compton and Tiverton, and is 
sometimes styled the East Passage. Its 
name is suggestive of the war canoes and 
war-whoops of the Seaconnet tribe of In- 
dians, who inhabited Little Compton, and 
whose Queen was Amashanks, in the days of 
King Philip ; meanwhile Meetamo was Queen 
of Pocasset, lying north. The first white 
settler at Seaconnet — now Little Compton 
— was the celebrated Indian fighter, Cap- 
tain (afterwards Colonel) Benjamin Church. 
Seaconnet signifies "black goose-haunt." 

The head of the bay is spanned by the 
Stone Bridge, so well known to travelers. 

Seaconnet Point, the southern extremity 
of Little Compton, with its East and West 
Rocks, wrestles with the ceaseless swells of 
the ocean, and holds its serene light peering 
into the face of old Xeptune. Once this was 
a place of popular summer resort, nor 
has it lost all its extraordinary attrac- 
tions. Its boarding houses and fishing 
advantages still attract the lovers of na- 
ture and those given to the sports of the 
reel and rod. Prominent among the ele- 
vations of Little Compton is Windmill 
Hill, around which linger serious tradi- 
tions and amusing legends. 

It was at the mouth of this bay that 
Major Silas Talbot, in the sloop "Hawk," 
attacked, abovit 1 o'clock in the morning 
of Oct. 29, 1778, the British galley " Pigot," 
and captured her without the loss of a 
man, and ran her into New London; an 
act that won him the thanks of the Gene- 



ral Assembly, and a sword, and the rank of 
Lieutenant-Colonel from Congress. 

In the cemetery at Little Compton Com- 
mon, among the old graves, marked by 
headstones brought from the mother coun- 
try, is one stone that will arrest the atten- 
tion of every visitor. It marks the grave of 
the first white woman born in New England. 
It reads: "Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth, 
the wife of William Pabodie, who dyed May 
ye 31 — 1717 — and in the 94 year of her 
age." She was born in 1623, and her maiden 
name was Alden. By her side is the grave 
of her husband, whose headstone reads: 
" Here lyeth buried ye body of William 
Pabodie, who departed this life December 
ye 13th, 1707, in the 88th year of his age." 

Now we are prepared to return in our view 
and look upon the shores immediately be- 
fore us. We notice two of the islands before 
us; the first at the mouth of Bristol harbor. 

Hog Island has a hard but significant 
name, for sometimes names are embodi- 
ments of historical facts. This land, called 
by the natives Chiseweanock, lies across the 
mouth of Bristol harbor. It was purchased 
near 1646 by Richard Smith from Wamsutta, 
a sachem of the Warapanoags. The settlers 
at Pocasset in 1639, and the planters at 
" Niew-Port " in the same year, had diffi- 
culties in the keeping of their swine. The 
small islands in the bay were secured at first 
for grazing and herding purposes, as they 
were more secure from wolves, panthers and 
bears, and required no fencing. The island 
here mentioned seems to have been appro- 
priated to the keeping of swine, as Goat 
Island was to goat-keeping. 




Restaurant, Rocky Point. 



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Prudence Island, or Chibacuwese — if any- 
body can pronounce the barbaric word — 
whicli was its aboriginal name, is the large 
fair island lying north of Conanicut and be- 
tween Popasquash Neck on the east and the 
North Kingstown shore on the west. Xo 
wonder that Roger Williams, on purchas- 
ing the beautiful island, concluded to give 
it a Christian name, and, following the 
pious custom of our Xew England fathers 
in this respect, gave to it the sweet word 
Prudexce, perhaps in honor of some dear 
female friend. He at the same time came 
into possession of Patience Island and Hope 
Island, the latter a gift to him from ilian- 
tonomi. Prudence, irregular in shape, is 
about six miles in length by three in width, 
and municipally belongs to the township of 
Portsmouth. On its eastern shore stands 
Land Point lighthouse. It is famed for 
farming, grazing, and fishing. 




The Nayatt House. 

Hard was the fate of this island during 
the Revolution. While the British held 
Newport and the bay, the inhabitants of 
Prudence fled to the main, and their farms, 
fruits, trees, and dwellings were the spoil of 
the enemy. 

Let us now take a glance at points on the 
main on the western shore. 

Wickford is nearly as old as Providence. 
In the Indian and early English history of 
Wickford may be found material for thril- 
ling stories. For years after its first occu- 
pancy by whites it was a sort of political 
shuttlecock between Rhode Island, Massa- 
chusetts and Connecticut, Here stood Rich- 



ard Smith's famous trading house, built 
with his residence, it is believed, in 1639. 
Xear this Roger Williams opened a trad- 
ing station witli the natives, and a road 
was opened from Providence by 1641. It 
is reported that Smith bought of the In- 
dians 30,000 acres. During the bloody 
struggle of King Philip's war, this set- 
tlement was the theatre of tragic mili- 
tary scenes. Smith's house was used as 
army quarters. Here were brought the 
killed and wounded of the swamp fight of 
December 19, 1675. Here "they were buried 
together, to the number of about forty, and 
an apple tree which grew on the spot after- 
wards was called the "Grave" apple tree 
from this circumstance. It was blown down, 
inthegaleof September, 1815." The "large 
grave" is on a knoll east of the mansion 
house on the Updike farm. It was on the 
plain east of the garrison house. Tradition 

,. _^ affirms that Joshua Tefft, for 

the double crime of treason and 
patricide, was "drawn and 
quartered." It is hoped that 
this is tradition merely. 
;, Homogansett, or the "Old 

Dance Ground," about half a 
mile north of Hamilton, on the 
shore of the bay, is said to have 
been the spot where were held 
the great councils of the natives, 
and where they executed deeds 
to Williams, Coddington and 
Smith. 

The first road leading through 

Rhode Island to Connecticut 

was on thd old Pequot path, 

passing from Providt uce 

through East Greenwich, Wickford and 

Kingstown, and struck the old Queen Anne's 

road, that led from Newport to Westerly. 

The old McSparran Church (St. Paul's) 
was removed from Tower Hill to Wickford 
in 1800. The Wickford Baptist Church dates- 
from 1834. The fine old village stands at the 
head of Wickford Bay, in North Kingstown, 
and counts near a thousand inhabitants. 
Connecting by rail with the Providence and 
Stouington road and by steamers with Co- 
nanicut Park, Narragansett Pier and New- 
port, it boasts peculiar advantages. It has 
its hotel, boarding houses, fine residences, 
and Cold Spring beach. One of the finest 



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drives in the country is by the road from 
Wickford to Narragansett Pier. 

The Cedars are redolent of leisure and 
pleasure. North Kingstown people, espe- 
cially the gallant young men and cherry- 
cheeked maidens of the first families, would 
not hold us guiltless if we should neglect to 
set in due honor their favorite summer re- 
sort for clambakes, shore dinners and sweet 



sett Bay on the west, lying between the 
island of Rhode Island and the townships 
of North and South Kingstown, and meas- 
ures about nine miles in length by one mile 
in breadth, with beautifully irregular shores, 
pleasingly undulating surface, and fertile 
soil. It is nearly divided into two parts by 
Mackerel Cove. Its highest point near the 
centre, is Freebody's Hill, on the south of 




Narragansett Pier. 



converse. On the shore of the bay two or 
three miles south of Wickford and opposite 
Fox Island, no shades of Academus surpass 
the shades of the Cedars for serenity, exhil- 
eration and charming memories. 

But let us again turn our attention to the 
beautiful islands of the bay. 

Conanicut Island fortunately retains its old 
Indian name. It was purchased of the na- 
tives in January, 1654-55. The name re- 
minds us of Canonicus, who here had his 
royal residence, and was the earliest and 
firmest friend of Roger Williams ; being a 
venerable old sachem when the exile reached 
his dominions; the grandson of the mighty 
and victorious Tashtassuck, in whose days 
the Xarragansetts, numbering five thousand 
trained warriors, held the coast from Con- 
necticut to near Cape Cod. Some beautiful 
island or rich tract of our State should have 
been named Caxoi^^icus in honor of the hon- 
est and pacific prince who was ever kind and 
true to our fathers, and who calmly passed 
away, as he believed, to the better shores of 
the Indian's paradise in the far Southwest, 
in June, 1047. 

Conanicut divides the mouth of Xarragan- 



which is the Jamestown post-office, on the 
line of the South Ferry. The form of the 
southern portion of the island was thought 
to resemble a beaver — as indeed it does; 
hence the northern point is called Beaver 
Head, and the southern point Beaver Tail, 
where stands an important Government light- 
house, established in 1749. The whole island 
constitutes the township of Jamestown, so 
named for King James when it was incor- 
porated Nov. 4, 1678. 

Conanicut Park, tastefully laid out at the 
north end of this romantic gem of the bay, 
embraces about five hundred acres, divided 
by varied avenues and drives affording de- 
lightful and picturesque views of islands, 
channels, the ocean, and the hills of the main 
land. Over all are breathed the salubrious 
airs of the Bay and the Atlantic. This place 
is designed for private residences — summer 
homes — and not for public parades, the 
flaunts of fashions and the confusion of ex- 
cursion parties; it is a charming place for 
qviiet and genteel family residences ; the 
Elysium along the shore. Steamboats touch 
here from Providence, Newport and Wick- 
ford". The island has also an excellent hotel ; 



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and cosy cottages may be hired by the sea- 
son. Advantages for fishing here are abund- 
ant and attractive. 

Canonicus' national headquarters, in 1636, 
are described as ''a state house, round, 
about fifty feet wide, made of long poles 
stuck in tlie ground, like the summer houses 
in England, and covered round about and on 
top with mats." Could the site of that 
royal wigwam be determined, it would be 
fitting to place there a huge bowlder in- 
scribed with the name of the old monarch. 

Fort Dumpling on the extreme eastern 
point of the island and nearly opposite Fort 
Adams, is an interesting ruin and relic. 
Begun immediately after the evacuation 
of Newport by the British, and named Fort 
Brown for Capt. Abdiel Bi'own, it was en- 
larged under the administration of John 
Adams, but work was suspended during tlie 
administration of Jefferson and was never 
after resumed. Its shape suggested its pres- 
ent name. While the outer wall yet remains 
firm, the interior is steadily crumbling down. 
Here fishing parties and companies of ex- 
cursionists prepare their chowders and clam- 
bakes in the summer months, and talk of 
the battles of their country. 

The British, while occupying Newport, 
had a fort at Beaver Tail. 




Hazard's Gate, Xarragansett Pier. 



At the east feri-y on Conanicut, there once 
stood a brick building that was used at 
times for convivial purposes. The last ball 
arranged here had a fearfully tragic record. 
A party of young men and young ladies 
started just at night from Newport to cross 
over to this edifice for a dance and festival. 
A tempest was rising. They reached with- 
in half a mile of the ferry. The stoi-m was 
now a gale and the billows rolled high and 
angrily. The boat swamped and nearly the 
whole party found a watery grave. The re- 
covered bodies were taken to the hall in 
which the dance was to have occurred. No 
more parties of this kind took place here. 
The ti'agedy has been preserved in verse. 

Dutch Island, or Quotenis, so named by 
the aborigines of the country, received the 
name of Dutch Island from the fact that 
near 162.!) it was secured by the West India 
Company as a post for trading with the 
Indians, under the superintendence of Abra- 
ham Pietersen. This was about eleven 
years before Eoger Williams reached Provi- 
dence. The history of this ti-ading post, the 
exchanging of Dutch goods, cloths, imple- 
ments and liquors for furs, fish and venison 
would be an exciting story. The island is 
delightfully situated in the west enti-ance of 
Xarragansett Bay, between Conanicut and 
the Xarragansett shore. It was 
bought of the natives by Ehode 
Islanders in January, 16.54-55. 

It will be remembered that 
in preparing troops for our 
great civil war, Dutch Island 
was chosen by the State authori- 
ties as the rendezvous for the 
battalions of the Fourteentli 
Regiment Rhode Island Heavy 
Artillery. The drill, good con- 
duct and effective service in the 
field of these colored tioops 
are a cherished part of our State 
history. ,' 

Smaller Islands. — Starve- 
GOAT ISLAXD lies a little south 
of Field's Point. 

Greexe Island, doubtless 
named for Capt. John Greene, 
is situated at the mouth of 
Turtle Cove, on the Warwick 
shore. 






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=MU. 



Despair Island lies north of 
Hope Island. 

Cornelius Island graces 
Wickford Bay. 

Fox Island, that savors of 
old hunting scenes, is in the 
West Passage, between Conani- 
cut Park and the main land. It 
was purchased of the Indians by- 
Randall Holden and Samuel Gor- 
ton in 1659. Its Indian name was 
Azoiquaneset. 

Whale Rock, possibly shaped 
like a whale's back, stands at 
the west of Beaver Tail. We 
think some of the wise in ancient 
stories can tell you of whaling adventures I 
connected with this firm defier of the waves. 
Gooseberry Island, Seal Rock, Cog- 
geshall's Ledge, and Cormorant Rock | 
are on the ocean side of the Island of Rhode | 
Island. 

Rose Island, celebrated for its picnic j 
parties, lies north of Fort Adams, in the ; 
east channel, and holds an important light- [ 
house. Its aboriginal name was Conocko- , 
noquit. _ | 

Coaster's Harbor Island, now contain- 
ing the Newport Almshouse, is situated a 
little north of the city. It was bought^ of 
the natives in January, 1654-5. Its Indian 
name was Woonachaset. 

Gould Island lies between Middletown 
and Conanicut Park. It was purchased of 
the aborigines by Thomas Gould in 1657. 
The Indians named it Aquopimokuk. 

Another island of the same name, by some 
maps, is situated at the head of Seaconnet 
Bay, below the Stone Bridge. 

Dyer's Island, doubtless at first the 
property of William Dyer, lies close to the 
western shore of Portsmouth. 

Sparrow Island graces like a jewel the 
bosom of Mount Hope Bay. 

We again turn our eyes to the western 
shore. 

NARRAGANSETT PIER. 

Narragansett ! What enticements of 
scenery, and of old historic story, are evoked 
by this name. Once the governmental seat 
of a savage power reaching from the Paw- 
catuck to the Merrimack, afterwards the 
capital district of the kindly Canonicus. 
Next the martial and civil theatre of the 




Bathing Scene, Narragansett Pier. 

struggles of our fathers. Later the home of 
culture and wealth in memorable homesteads. 
Now the region distinguished for manufac- 
tures and for the summer resorts of the 
literary and affluent. 

Narragansett Pier lies on the extreme 
southwestern border of Narragansett Bay — 
in fact it lies fully open to the Atlantic Ocean 
— and is five miles north of Point Judith, 
ten miles-a^iithwest of Newport, and twenty- 
six miles-f«)m Providence. Perhaps at 
present it is one of the most noted summer 
resorts on this coast, as it has every at- 
traction as a watering place to recommend 
it — ocean, bay, creek, river, pond, island, 
rock, shoal, beach, hill, farm and forest. 

Some have lately styled this "The City of 
Hotels," since these structures number 
about twenty, though some of them are 
simply sumptuous boarding-houses for fam- 
ilies and parties. We need here mention 
only some of the conspicuous ones in a cat- 
alogue style in their alphabetical order, 
without reference to their date of structure 
or grade of cost and entertainments : At- 
lantic House, Atwood House, Continental 
Hotel, Delavan House, Elmwood House, 
Mathewson House, Massasoit House, Meta- 
tuxet House, Mount Hope Hotel, Narragan- 
sett House, Ocean House, Revere House, Sea 
View House, Tower Hill and Whaley Houses. 
Ten years ago the place could boast of but 
one hotel. Ocean avenue, on which so many 
of the hotels stand, stretches north and 
south and looks out upon the now serene 
and the now stormy deep. 

Really there are three piers or lauding 
places for boats — Narragansett pier, Upper 



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pier, and Lower pier. The place also con- 
nects by i-ail with Kingston station, on the 
Providence and Stonington Railroad. 

The society at the Pier and in the vicinity 
is select; merchants, manufacturers, states- 
men, men of letters and practical science, 
and eminent jirofessional characters of every 
sort choose this as their favorite summer re- 
treat. Here, too, are excellent opportunities 
for public worship ; sevei-al churches of dif- 
ferent denominations hold open their doors 
in the genuine spirit of Rhode Island. 

Various delightful resorts are found in the 
neighborhood, such as Salt Lake with its 
islands and yachts, Willow Dell, White 
Lake, Little Comfort beach, and cosy nooks 
unnamed. The drives into the old Narra- 
gansett country are enchanting. The beach 
and the bathing are simply unsurpassed. 

If we rightly interpret the recent rapid 
growth of this city of hotels, and the increas- 
ing villas and mansions on the heights and in 
the valleys, the old, famed Xarragansett re- 
gion is to have a new lease of honor, and win 
a new and brilliant page of social history, sur- 
passing all that is mentioned in Updike's 
History of the palmy days of old. The 
dwellers at the Pier and on Tower Hill may 
well be proud of the society they have here 
established and purpose to maintain 




Point Judith, Narragansett Pier. 

If any of the distinguished visitors, or 
learned residents, at Narragansett Pier, wish 
to be entertained and instructed with the 
history of the social, political, literary and 
business life of South Kingstown — remarka- 
ble chapters all — let them inquire of the 
Hazaxd family — a family as noble as the 
township. Any one of them is embodied 
histoi-y — some are lawyers, some are man- 
ufacturers, all are speakers and w]-iters. 
E. H. H. will give you the history of every 



public man in the State. T. R. H. will give 
you the history of "jonny cakes," smelts, 
and domestic life of old in South Kingstown, 
with more than poetic charms. R. G. H. 
will give you a volume on the will, or his- 
tory, or agriculture, or a treatise on manu- 
facturing shawls. 

We add a word in reference to the Tower 
Hill church, of which the old Kingstown 
families talk so much. It was built in 1707. 
Rev. James McSparran, D.D., a graduate of 
the University of Glasgow, settled here in 
1721. Though he resided on Tower Hill, his 
parish reached from Little Compton to New 
London, Conn. He died in South Kings- 
town Dec. 1, 1757, having been minister of 
St. Paul's (Tower Hill) church for thirty- 
seven years, and was buried beneath the com- 
munion table of the church. He wrote a 
notable volume entitled "America Dis- 
sected." His opinion of the country -was- 
none too exalted. E\adently he had less of 
the prophetic spirit than Berkeley. 

Visitors to South Kingstown, not insensi- 
ble to the stories of the famed Narragansett 
pacers of the olden time, may find the 
gi'ound on which the owners of these fleet 
bloods contended for the prizes — silver 
tankards — at Little Neck Beach, where the 
course measured one mile. Of these pacers 
Dr. McSparran wrote : " I have seen some 
of them pace a mile in little more than 
two minutes." Another says, "They 
would perform a journey of 100 miles a 
day without injury to themselves or 
rider." Governor Robinson imported the 
original breed from Andalusia, in Spain. 
Inquiring of the traditionally wise in 
respect to the Old Pier — the mass of 
huge and scattered boulders above the 
present landings — you may hear of the 
repeated attempts formerly made to se- 
cure a landing-place on this wind and 
wave-lashed shore.' Pier after pier was built 
only to be dashed into ruins by the angry 
elements. At last a bold spirit, transport- 
ing huge boulders to the beach, constructed 
a weighty Pharos and boasted that even 
the Almighty could not overthrow it. Alas, 
the gale arose, the billows rolled, and here 
you now witness the wreck of the builder's 
boast — a moral lesson to all. 

Tower Hill House has a conspicuous loca- 
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a range of romantic eminences on tlie east- 
ern border of South Kingstown, overlooking 
Narragansett Bay. The Tower Hill House, 
situated on Xarragansett Heights, stands on 
one of these hills, south of the old historic 
village of Tower Hill, where once stood, for 
a time, the famous Tower Hill Church, cele- 
brated in Updike's History. Narragansett 
Heights is a beautifully elevated tract of 
land, comprising about eight hundred acres, 
and near a mile and a half from 
Narragansett Pier. The Heights 
stand about one hundred and 
twenty-five feet above the sea 
level. The house commands a 
magnificent view of ocean, bay, 
shore and country ; it was 
opened in 1871. 

"Bull's garrison house" was 
in Pettiquamscut, on Tower 
Hill. In December, 1675, it was 
attacked by the Indians, who 
"burnt the house, and killed 
ten men and five women, but 
two escaping." Who now 
can guide us to the spot where 
occurred this fiery, bloody 
tragedy? 

Tower Hill is said to have received its 
name in commemoration of the place where 
Lady Jane Grey was executed. It is now 
memorable from an execution that here took 
place in those early days when the height 
was occupied by a colonial court-house and 
jail, before they were removed to Little Rest, 
Kingstown Hill. In the old court-house 
occurred the famous trial of Thomas Carter 
for the murder of Mr. Jackson. The body 
of Jackson was thrown into Pettiquamscut 
river, but was discovered. Carter was con- 
demned and his execution took place on the 
old training-lot at the foot of the hill near 
Pettiquamscut river. He was hung in 
chains, and the body was left hanging for 
several years in the chains, till the body 
decayed and the gallows rotted down. 

We copy a few records of the famous hard 
winter. "During the cold winter of 1740, a 
man drove a horse and sleigh on the ice 
from Hurlgate, near New York, toCapeCod." 
" Narragansett Bay was soon frozen over, 
and the people passed and repassed from 
Providence to Newport on the ice, and from 
Newport to Bristol." "The snow in the 



woods, where it had fallen on a level, was 
supposed to be three feet deep on the 10th 
of March (1741)," Dr. McSparran wrote, 
" As from my house I can see the Atlantic 
Ocean. I have seen it froze as far as the 
human eye could reach." "It was reported 
by the inhabitants that they could see noth- 
ing but ice. " " There were more than thirty 
snow-storms." 
The Sprague Mansion will be seen and ad- 




Indian Rock, Narragansett Pier. 

mired. On the Tower HillEange of charm- 
ing eminences are a number of elegant sum- 
mer residences, belonging to notable men in 
varied walks of life. Some of these struc- 
tures are very costly without and within, 
and surrounded by artistically planned and 
decorated grounds. Among the mansions, 
at a little distance from the Tower Hill 
House, is the magnificent and expensive 
chateau of Ex-Governor and Senator Wm. 
Sprague, commanding a superb view of the 
Narragansett shore. 

Indian Rock will command the visitor's at- 
tention. Unmoved and unmovable, ever 
doing battle with Neptune, this ancient rib 
of granite is a point of the bold shore a lit- 
tle south of the lower landing of Narragan- 
sett Pier. There lives in connection with 
this rock a tragical tale which we leave to be 
told by the locally wise people of the Narra- 
gansett country. 

Castle Rock will attract the attention ol 
visitors from the love drama that " the old- 
est inhabitant" recites respecting it; that 
the spot was designed to be the happy home 



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<ii an affianced pair ; that the lover had plan- 
ned and partly completed his choice edifice 
when death interposed and cut down the 
flower of his life, so that ever after the world 
was dark and lonely to him ; his castle was a 
cold and barren rock. 

Point Judith is the bold, wave-defying 
headland that needs no introduction to sail- 
ors. Whoever can box the compass, and 
hosts that cannot, will tell you something of 
Point Judith; and some of the experiences 
will be veritable tragedies, others will shade 
into comedy. The valiant cape has battled 
with the furious elements through what 
untold centuries. What historic keels have 
doubled it; bands of Indian war canoes; 
prows of Norsemen and Dutch on voyages 
of discovery; fleets of commerce, and navies 
of France, England and America. Around 
it have dodged swift privateers and skulked 
dark corsairs. Doubtless on this promon- 
tory the famed Kidd buried as much gold 
and silver as on any other spot. And what 
wrecks, first and last, have been thrown on 
these rocks. 

The name of the Indian sachem who once 
ruled this region was AVanomachin. During 
the colonial wars, on this bold promontory 
rose a watch tower, and here burned the 
beacon fires that flamed their war signals 
along the coast. Curious speculations have 
been indulged — some of them dignified by 
print — relative to the origin of the name 
now borne by this headland. The fact is 
Point Judith was so named from Judith 
Hull, wife of John Hull, one of the original 
purchasers of Pettiquamscut from the Xar- 
ragansetts, in January, 1659. Doubtless she 
was a brave and beautiful woman, and all 
agreed to honor her. Let no one rob her of 
her historic lustre. 

Still glows upon the brow of night 
Her cheering name — a flame of light. 

Here, Nov. 6, 1777, the British ship Syren, 
of 28 guns, with 166 officers and men, ran 
ashore and was captured by the patriot ar- 
tillery holding the point. The prisoners 
were carried to Providence. 

"Watch Hill, so named from the old watch- 
fires and signals of alarm kindled on the hill- 
top during the French and English wars, and 
in the glowing days of the Revolution, holds 
the southwestern post of honor in the State 



and commands a magnificent view of the 
Atlantic Ocean, Block Island, Long Island, 
Fisher's Island, Stonington Borough, Little 
Narragansett Bay, Pawcatuck Eiver, and a 
richly rolling hill country to the northward. 
It is no marvel that it holds a very high rank 
among the summer resorts of tourists and 
travellers. Its inspiring scenes, recupera- 
tive aii-s and unsurpassed bathing facilities 
have given it a wide and permanent popu- 
larity, and led to the multiplication of its 
hotels. Around these hills and along these 
shores linger what wild traditions of the 
aborigines — Niantics, Pequots, Narragan- 
setts, Montauks and Manisses — and stirring 
legends of the Dutch traders and the first 
English settlers. Here sailed Adrian Block. 
Here came John and Mary Babcock in their 
frail boat. Here the settler contended with 
wolves and bears. Here fell the strokes of 
barbaric and civilized war. The grand old 
trees of the coast were swept down by the 
September gale of 1815. 

Watch Hill is about three miles from Ston- 
ington and five from Westerly, connecting 
with these places by steamer and carriages, 
and always speaks with the wide world by 
telegraph. The first light-house was erected 
near 1806; the present is forty feet in height, 
holding its light sixty-two feet above the 
sea level. The extreme point is rocky, but 
on either hand stretch away beaches of pure 
sand and glittering pebbles on which swell 
the great pulses of the Atlantic, and in what- 
ever direction the wind may blow some parts 
are always sheltered sufficiently for the 
bather. The sweetest of fish, finny and 
shell, are here abundant. By day the waters 
are dotted with the crafts of commerce, and 
by night the peninsulas of the main land 
and the far-off islands throw their lights — 
twelve in number with the light-ship — vtpon 
the darkness. Since the multiplication of 
hotels and cottages within the last decade 
the people, with the aid of the visitors, have 
erected a fine chaijel where non-sectarian 
religious services are regularly obseiwed. 
Special worship is conducted as circum- 
stances may require; the chapel seats two 
hundred or more. 

Of the hotels, so widely and favorably 
known, we need only give the names. The 
Watch Hill House, the oldest; the Atlantic 
House and the Ocean House, both temper- 



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Watch Hill Light. 



auce hotels; the Plympton House; the Xar- 
ragaiisett Hotel; the Bay View House; the 
Larkin House, the most southern and the 
largest, capable of accommodating near 
three hundred guests. On the beach at the 
west is the Peninsula House in which are 
served clam dinners. Nor should we forget 
the summer boarding house called "The 
Dickens," named from the old proprietor 
who opened it, an honored and successful 
sea captain in his day. 

The Atlantic Garden is a new feature of 
attraction to this favorite resort. The new 
building situated on the beach west of the 
Peninsula House is two stories high, and will 
supply dinners and amusements. Bowling 
alleys and music will doubtless draw. 

Here tourists and boarders may enjoy the 
rarest opportunities of fishing in ocean, bay 
and river. If need be they can visit farms 
and forests. But when swell the gales on 
the ocean, they can gaze with awe or admi- 
ration, as their thoughts may be, on the dark, 
rolling clouds and the huge green sea bil- 
lows that foam and dash upon the shores. 
The dwellers here will tell you many a tale 
of shipwreck. 

Noyes' Beach. — A new summer resort has 
lately been opened a few miles east of Watch 
Hill, near the well-known Noyes' Rocks. 
For serenity and health it has large claims. 
The salt ponds in the rear afford rare oppor- 
tunities for fishing. 

As in our sketches we have wandered from 
Narragausett Bay, let us return by the way 
of New Shoreham, the town on the bosom 
of the Atlantic. 



BLOCK ISLAND. 



" Circled by waters that never freeze, 
Beaten by billows, and swept by breeze." 

— J. G. Mliittici: 

Manisses — meaning, in the Indian dialect, 
island of little god — was the aboriginal 
designation of this gem of the sea, and was 
also the name of the tribe of Indians found 
here by the first Europeans. The Manisses 
anciently were in league with, if not tribu- 
taries to, the Narragansetts on the main 
land. Odd and exciting traditions have come 
down to us of the fierce and sanguinary con- 
flicts of the Manisses, on sea and land, with 
the Montauks, Pequots, and Niautics. It is 
told that on one occasion, when the Manisses, 
who, in accordance with an old and honored 
annual custom, had invited one of these 
neighboring tribes to a feast, failed to fur- 
nish, with the other dainties, the customary 
eels, they were not only severely upbraided, 
but savagely fallen upon by their guests, as 
having perpetrated an insult, and were cru- 
elly handled. 

In 1524 the French navigator, John Verraz- 
zani, in the Dolphin, visited the island and 
reported that it resembled the Isle of 
Rhodes. In 1614 the Dutch trader, Adrian 
Block, landed and examined the island, from 
which fact the island has received its pres- 
ent name. In 1636, John Oldham and his 
companions from Boston, while here trading, 
were murdered by the natives, and Mas- 
sachusetts endeavored to punish the perpe- 
trators of the crime, claiming the island by 
right of concxuest. In 1658 the island was 
entrusted to four persons, who afterwards 



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sold it to sixteen persons for four hundred 
pounds. At last, in 16T2, it came under tbe 
jurisdiction of Rhode Island and received 
the municipal name of New Shoreham from 
a remembrance of Shoreham in England. 

In shape the island resembles a pear, with 
the stem end to the north. It is 14 miles 
S. W. from Point Judith, 25 from Newport, 
50 from Providence, 32 from Stonington, 
45 from Xew London. It measures about 
seven miles in length, with an average width 
of three miles, and has a delightfully undu- 
lating surface, with a fertile soil and a good 
supply of water in ponds. Being destitute 
of a stream grain is ground in windmills. 
Some of the inhabitants formerly used 
querns. The Great Salt Pond, north of the 
centre, connects with the ocean on the west 
side. On nearly all sides rise bluffs from 
one to two hundred feet above the sea. On 
the east side is the harbor, made such at 
last by the Government breakwater. Doubt- 
less soon the island will become connected 
with the main land by a telegraphic cable. 

Many and engaging are the war stories 
belonging to this exposed region; attacks, 
losses and sufferings in the colonial wars 
with France and Spain; fears of upi-isings 
among the Indians; raids and plunderings 
from pirates; descents and confiscations by 
the English in the Eevolution. These mat- 
ters are recited in the histories of the 
island. 

Block Island's reputation as a summer 
resort has grown within the last twenty 
years, since steam navigation has become so 
general and economical, and especially since 
the improvements of the harbor. Here one 
may find serenity, seclusion, salubrity, 
beauty, grandeur, sublimity, and all incen- 
tives to profound study. 

The following are the hotels already open: 
Ocean View Hotel, Spring House, Highland 1 
House, Norwich House, Belle View House, 
Connecticut House, "Woonsocket Hotel, 
United States Hotel, Central House, Pequot 
House, Seaside House, Adrian House, Rose 
Cottage, and the Providence House, 

The Spring House, first opened in 1S69, , 
has a specialty deserving mention. The j 
September gale of 1815 plowed a ravine here 
twenty-five feet deep, out of which gushed 
two mineral springs, from which this house 
derived its name and now receives a daily 



supply of 1,400 gallons. Of the sanitary or 
healing qualities of this water hundreds 
prefer to speak in strong terms. The house, 
therefore, was enlarged in 1876, Its view of 
' the ocean is also a delight. Mr, B. B. Mit- 
chell, now for the third time represents the 
island in our Legislature. 

Visitors will be much interested in ascend- 
ing Beacon Hill, that once flashed its signal 
fires along the coast. They will also ex- 
amine with intei-est the lighthouses and life- 
saving stations. And here perpetually sweep 
by in majesty and beauty, both the white- 
winged and fire-breathing couriers of com- 
merce. 

The inhabitants of the island are hardy 
seamen as "well as skilled husbandmen. 
Their boats, like living creatures, bound 
over the billows and pursue with success the 
finny denizens of the deep. And innumer- 
able are the incidents, anecdotes and tradi- 
tions that these self-taught skippers will re- 
late to you if you accompany them on their 
expeditions. Deep is their lore of storms, 
gales, perils and shipwrecks, with good rea- 
son, from the free play of the elements. 
The marvelous and thrilling may be said to 
be indigenous to this dwarf continent. 

For the entertainment of persons of leis- 
ure and poetic taste who visit this home of 
hardy fishermen, we are tempted to quote a 
couple of stanzas from the famous wit, 
Joseph Green, found in his keen parody of 
Mather Byles' "Hymn, Written During a 
Voyage" : — 

" With vast amazement we survey 

The wondei-s of the deep, 
"Where mackerel swim and porpoise play. 

And crabs and lobsters creep. 

Fish of all kinds inhabit here, 

And throng the dark abode, 
Hei'e haddock, hake and flounders are. 

And eels, and perch, and cod." 

Excursions over and around Block Island 
are enticing. Boatmen and boats, equal to 
wind and wave, are at your order to double 
the points and aid in hooking the finny 
tribes of the sea, from mackerel, cod and 
bass, to porpoises and sharks if you desire 
them; and rare sport you may have with 
blue fish, the liveliest and best of ocean 
game. The cliff faces of the island, as seen 
from the sea, are grand and impressive, awak- 
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natures. Besides, ^ve cau recall many, and 
imagine wliat we do not recall of the valu- 
able^sliips. great and small, that have been 
dashed by the storms and billows on these 
strong shores. The boatmen will tell you 
of many of these wrecks. 

If you wish to travel over the island you 
will fiud no turnpikes or broad avenues, but 
you may find historic trails and rude roads 
up and down the billowing hills and through 
the green romantic vales and raAines. If, in 
passing from point to blufE you are required 
to let down the bars or open the big gate, it 
will recall primitive modes of living and the 
days of rural economy. Tour tour is sure 
to be romantic and picturesqixe, now gazing 
on a cozy farm house, now on an aged wind- 
mill, now on the coast-guarding light-house, 
and now on the houses and boats of the life- 
saving stations. Some of these last are in j 
the orders of our Government. But the 
island has also an Independent Wrecking 
Company, whose means and insti-uments you , 
will study with profit. 'l 

We find the splendid light-houses on the 
ends of the island, and their skillful keepers | 
are ready to explain their history and their 
operation. The best single view of the 
island will be obtained from the summit of 
Beacon Hill, near the island's centre. Per- 
haps this should be visited first, and from 
this point roads and paths may be selected to 
all other points. The hill is found on the 
right of the only real road running com- 
pletely across the island. 

Of course the peat bogs will not be for- 
gotten in your explorations, for they will 
talk to you of ancient days. 

As you travel over the island forget not to 
visit the old Burying Ground and ponder the 
names and epitaphs on the moss-mantled 
stones. Among the inscriptions you will 
read of one, a most deserving man, who was 
born in 1622 and became one of the original 
settlers of this fair isle : — 

" Here lyes interred the 
body of Mr. James Sands, 

Seniour. aoed 73 years. 

Departed this life March ye 

13, 1695." 

You see "Old Mortality" was getting 
blind, and so inverted his G. 

The Palatine Light. — The richest tradit'on 
which the old Islander? delight to relate, is 



the story of the burning Palatine 
famous by Whittier's fine poem, 



ship, made 
and Dana's 




"Buccaneer." The tale about the ship is 
shrouded in the obscurity of tradition. As 



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narrated by the islanders the story is briefly 
this : '"About 1719' or 1720a German vessel 
laden with emigrants from the Palatinate, a 
former political division of Germany, sailed 
for the West Indies. On the passage a mutiny 
had arisen, the captain had been killed and the 
passengers robbed. The ship was driven by 
a storm upon Long Point, Block Island. The 
passengers and crew were all landed, except 
one lady, who refused to leave the vessel. 
The ship was subsequently fired and burned 
with the unfortunate lady on board. Most 
of those landed from the ship were sick and 
soon died. Three women alone survived, 
and two of them lived and died on the island. 
These two women were called ' Tall Kat- 
tern,' and ' Short Kattern.' The former mar- 
ried a negro, and some of their descendants 
are said to be still living." 

The more prosaic story is that a German 
vessel in distress landed at the island, left 
several sick passengei'S, and after remaining 
in port some time sailed away. Most of 
those put ashore died, but two or three sur- 
vived and lived upon the island, as is related 
in the more correct tradition. 

Whether the ship was burned is a ques- 
tion which cannot be definitely settled, but 
the weight of evidence seems to favor the 
stoi'y that she was burned. The graves of 
the poor unfortunates buried on the island 
were clearly marked a few years since, and 
some are still recognizable. Hon. William 
P. Sheffield, in his "Historical Sketch of 
Block Island," speaks as follows of the last 
resting place of the Palatinates : — 

"On the south side of Block Island, but a 
few rods to the west of where the 'Ann 
Hope,' the India ship of Brown & Ives, of 
Providence, was wrecked, and some forty or 
fifty rods to the east of the 'Black Rock 
Gully,' on a little knoll is a cluster of graves ; 
up to within a few years they were distinctly 
visible, but the unfeeling plow has passed 
over them, and has almost obliterated their 
existence. In the 'Pocock Meadow,' a mile 
further westward, and in a field lately owned 
by the late Jessie Lewis, were other clusters 
of graves, long within my memory if not 
now visible. These were all known as the 
' Palatine Graves.' The existence of these 
graves and their designation will not be 
questioned." 

Tradition has connected this story with an 



unexplained phenomenon, which was of 
frequent occurrence years ago, but which has 
not appeared in these latter days of skepti- 
cism. This is the wonderful light seen off 
the northern part of the island, and this is 
the famous Palatine light. The story is that 
every year there appears the ship, under full 
sail, on fire in every part, as a terrible re- 
minder to the islanders of the inhumanity 
of the inhabitants in firing the Palatine ship 
and burning to death the unfortunate lady 
who refused to leave the fated vessel. The 
tale is still implicitly believed in by many of 
the " oldest inhabitants ;" and by the super- 
stitious islanders the strange light was long 
thought to be supernatural. It was first 
seen, it is said, after the burning of the 
Palatine ship, and it was believed to be a 
ship on fire. The credulous people easily 
supplied in imagination the burning hull, 
spars and sails, and thought they beheld a 
spectrs ship in a mass of flame. But this 
appearance is so well authenticated that its 
existence can not be doubted. A strange 
light has been seen at various times during 
the earlier part of the century. The testi- 
mony is numerous and almost unimpeach- 
able. What this light was has never been 
explained. Di*. Aaron C. Willey, a resident 
physician of the island, in December, 1811, 
addressed to a friend in New York a letter 
in which he gave a full description of the 
Palatine light, as seen by himself. He de- 
scribes it as follows : — 

"This curious irradiation rises from the 
ocean, near the northern part of the island. 
Its appearance is nothing different from a 
blaze of fire; whether it actually touches 
the water, or merely hovers over it, is uncei*- 
tain, for I am informed that no person has 
been near enough to decide accurately. 
Sometimes it is small, resembling the light 
through a distant window; at others ex- 
panding to the highness of a ship with all 
her canvas spread. When large it displays 
either a pyramidal form or three constant 
streams. This light often seems to be in a 
constant state of mutation ; decreasing by 
degrees it becomes invisible or resembles a 
lucid point, then shining anew, sometimes 
with a sudden flare, at others by a gradual 
increasement to its former size. Often the 
mutability regards the lustre only, becoming 
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■nothing but a pale outline can 
be discerned of its full size, then 
resuming its full splendor, in the 
manner before related. The 
duration of its greatest and least 
state of illumination is not com- 
monly more than three minutes. 
* * * It is seen at all seasons 
of the year, and for the most part 
in the calm weather which pre- 
cedes an easterly or southerly 
storm." 

The wi-iter adds that this blaze 
actually emits luminous rays. 
He states that he twice saw it 
personally. 

The following extract, from a 
letter of Mr. Benjamin Congdon, 
formerly a resident of the Nar- 
ragansett country, and in his ninetieth year, 
published in the Xewport Mercuri/, March 
23, 18TS, is conclusive testimony of the reality 
of the phantom ship : — 

"About the burning Palatine ship you 
speak of in your interesting papers, I may 
say that I have seen her eight or ten times 
or more. In those eai'ly days nobody doubted 
her being sent by an Almighty Power to 
punish those wicked men who murdered her 
passengers and crew. After the last of these 
was dead she was never more seen. We 
lived when I was young, in Charlestown, di- 
rectly opposite Block Island, where we used 
to have a plain view of the burning ship." 

Allusion has been made to Dana's poem, 
" The Buccaneer." In it is one stanza of re- 
markable force, descriptive of the guiltj'- 
soul: — 

•* For he's accursed from all that's good ; 
He ne'er must know its healing- power, 
The sinner on his sin shall brood, 
And wait, alone, his hour, 
A stranger to earth's beauty —human love, — 
No rest below for him, no hope above." 

But the time has come for us to report in 
Newport harbor. As we enter please notice 
the islands ensconced in it. 

Goat Island was called Nomsussmuc by 
the aborigines. For the first whites who 
settled here it was a goat pasture, as its 
name indicates. It is finely situated in the 
entrance of Xewport Harbor and nearly op- 
posite the city, and bears a lighthouse on 
its northern point and Fort Wolcott near its 




Block Island Light. 

centre. At present it is distinguished as the 
Torpedo Station, where scientific men and 
officers of our National Government are 
engaged in the construction and testing of 
submarine engines and projectiles. The ex- 
tensive laboratories, cottages of officers and 
other buildings, give to the island a very 
handsome appearance. Here graduates of 
the Xaval Academy study and experiment 
with torpedoes. Of course the public are 
not let into all these mysteries. 

In 172o a pirate sloop was captured and 
brought into Xewport. Her crew was duly 
tried by a court of admiralty. Twenty-six 
of the pirates being condemned were hanged 
July 19, at Btiirs Point — now called Grav- 
elly Point — and were buried on Goat Island 
between high and low water-mark. 

This island is still further historic in being 
the site of the old colonial fort that has 
borne the names of Ann, George, Washing- 
ton, and its present name — received early 
in the present century — Fort Wolcott. Here 
was the garrison of the harbor in Xewport' s 
palmy days. An English historian affirms 
that the Eevolutionary War was really com- 
menced at this fort. Its full story would 
make a charming monograph. 

Lime Rocks are found in Xewport Harbor, 
between the city and Brenton's Cove, near 
the southern shore, holding the bright lan- 
tern by night — a flame that has blazed widely 
abroad the name of Ida Lewis — now Mrs. 
Ida (Lewis) Wilson — who is reported to 
have saved by her skill and bravery, at dif- 



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ferent times, thirteen lives. Very justly the 
City of Xewport presented to her a beautiful 
life-boat, that she might continue her work 
of saving drowning men and women. Thous- 
ands of persons have paid their compliments 
to the heroine. The United States Govern- 
ment has recently (1S79) raised her salary to 
S750 per annum. 

Brenton's Cove has its many maritime 
memories, commercial and naval. Here Cap- 
tain Cook's famous ship Endeavor was finally 
condemned, dismantled and broken up. Here 
rode the old privateers, corsairs, and vessels 
of foreign trade. And here in the harbor 
swung the fleets of England, Finance and our 
own young nation. Across these waters 
flit the nimble keels of sail-boats bearing 
visitors from Newport to Fort Adams. 

The Island of Rhode Island or Eoodt Ey- 
landt — the Red Island — so-called from the 
red clay on some portions of its shores, was 
the name given to this gem of the sea by 
Capt. Adrian Block when he visited this 
region in 1614, in his pinnace the Restless. 
John Verrazzani, the Florentine navigator, 
who in the Dolphin entered the harbor of 
Newport in April, 1524, and spent fifteen 
days, speaks of the natives as the "goodli- 
est" people he had found in America, yet 
so ignorant that, though instruments of 
steel and iron were often exhibited, they 
did not form a conception of their use nor 
learn to covet their possession. The Indians 
called the island Aquidneck, the Isle of 
Peace; but the colonists, in 1044, changed 
it to Rhode Island, or " Isle of Rhodes," a 
term applied by Verrazzani to Block Island 
from its fancied resemblance to the ancient 
isle in the Mediterranean. Thus by a 
strange shuffling of terms was finally fixed 
the name of this fair island and of the State 
to which it belongs. Tradition says that 
prior to the settlement of the island by the 
English there occurred a war among the 
Indians for its possession, and the old oc- 
cupants, the Aquidnecks, were conquered 
by the Narragansetts. 

In 1638 the Narragansett sachems sold the 
island, through the influence of Roger Wil- 
liams and Sir Henry Vane, to William Cod- 
dington and eighteen others, for "forty 
fathoms of white peage, ten coats and 
twenty hoes for the resident Indians, and ■ 
five fathoms of wampum to the local sa- 



chem." The name given to the spot first 
settled, on the northeast part of the island, 
was Pocasset, from the Indian territory on- 
the east of the bay. The spot is now in 
Portsmouth. Soon after a settlement was 
formed at Newtown. In due time followed 
the founding of the city of Newport in the 
sirring of 1038-39. 

The first to settle in Newport were Nicho- 
las Fasten and his sous Peter and John, fol- 
lowed by eight others. On this island was 
the royal seat of Miantonomi. A good law 
was passed by the settlers in August, 1640, 
" that no idling about should be allowed," 
which if still in force might make some stir. 
The seal adopted by the islanders in 1641 
was Amor vincet omnia — certainly very 
complimentary to their spirit. The first 
orchard in Newport was' planted by Gov. 
William Coddington, in 1639. 

Remarkable for its beauty, fertility, and 
salubrity, this island is about fifteen miles 
in length with an average breadth of three 
and a half miles. At present it contains the 
City of Newport, and the towns of Ports- 
mouth and Middletown. During the Revo- 
lutionary War the island was captured by 
the British, who held it from December, 
1776, to Octobei", 1779, destroying farms, gar- 
dens, and forests, and for the time crushing 
the important commerce of Newi^ort. In 
August, 1778, was fought the fierce "Battle 
of Rhode Island," pronounced by General 
Lafayette to have been "the best-fought 
action of the war." The Americans, under 
Genei'als Sullivan and Greene, numbering 
5,000, lost in killed, wounded, and missing ' 
only 211, while the British, with superior 
numbers, suffered a loss of 1,023. On the 
10th of July, 1777, Lieut.-Col. William Bar- 
ton with six officers and thirty-four men,, 
selected for the brave undertaking, landed 
in the night on the Portsmouth shore, near 
a mile from the headquarters of General 
Prescott, the British commander, advanced 
secretly to the house of Mr. Overing, their 
objective point, seized the General in his 
bed, hurried him away in undress to the 
shore, and carried him exultantly (on the 
part of the patriots) to Warwick Neck, and 
then to Providence, completing one of the 
most spirited episodes of the Revolution, 
Newport was really the metropolis of the 
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Item.— The poetic and Christian spirit of 
Ro"-er Williams is seen in the fact that he 
desired that the island of Rhode Island might 
be named Patmos, doubtless in honor of his 
friend John Clarke, who, like himself, had. 
been banished from Massachusetts, and of 
whom he says, " The grand motive which 
turned the scale of his life, was the truth of 



God — a just liberty to all men's spirits in 
spiritual matters, together with the peace 
and prosperity of the whole Colony." Clarke 
deserves a handsome granite monument,^ or 
a bronze statue, in Newport, something 
answering to the memorial to Williams in 
Providence. 




III. 



Utiiitt^rt^ 



o{b^ . 



" Hail, island-home of Peace and Liberty ! 
Hail, breezy cliff, ^ray rock, majestic sea ! 
Here men should walk with heavenward lifted eye. 
Free as the winds, and open as the sky. 

— C. T. Brooki^ 




:,0 island ou the American coast has 
more historic renown than this fair 
spot that beautifies the Narragan- 
sett waters; and Newport holds in 
her annals and legends the sum of 
this glory. Indeed, her fame, polit- 
ical, commercial, military, and 
social has gone to the very ends of the 
earth. Travellers have poetically styled the 
island of Ehode Island as the " Eden of 
America." 

THE CITY OF NEWPORT. 

Old and honorable is this city. Once it 
led the commerce of our State, and even 
stood in advance of New York. Some idea 
of the acti\ities of the city in 1709 may be 
discovered in the fact that then the town 
contained seventeen manufactories of sperm 
oil and candles, five rope-walks, three sugar 
refineries, one brewery, and twenty-two rum 
distilleries. Certainly the last item men- 
tioned is proof that it was a spirited town, 
and that it communicated its spirits to the 
world. The shipping of the town was very 
extensive for that age of our country. 

The Newport Mercury, now perhaps the 
oldest newspaper in our country, was com- 
menced in June, 1T58. 

Newport was incorjjorated as a city in May, 
1784. It had suffered very severely in the 
Revolutionary struggle — 480 buildings of 



various kinds had been destroyed. Her 
losses of men and means were irreparable. 
And then followed the quasi-vrRY withFrance, 
and the embargo of 1808, and the war of 
1812, and the terrific gale of 1815. All these 
things checking her old life, and turning the 
tide of trade to other quarters, left her shorn 
of her old colonial glory, when her 2,000 
seamen linked her to the old world and the 
Indies. 

When the British evacuated New-port in 
1779 they carried with them the records of 
the town, and the transport in which they 
were struck a rock in Hurlgate and sunk. 
They were fished out of the hulk in 1782, of 
course in a deplorable condition, and some 
portions entirely gone. It will be remem- 
bered that the records of Providence had 
their war-baptism, during King Philip's 
war, in Mr. John Smith's mill pond. All this 
may appear to be in keeping with the fact 
that Rhode Island was a Baptist colony. 

For a time something was realized from 
whaling, but nothing compared with the 
prizes of the old privateers. Lately manu- 
factures have been encouraged. In the 
Dorr Rebellion Newport was true to law and 
order, as she emphatically was, even to her 
disproportioned expense in the trying years 
of the Rebellion, Newport is a city of wealth 
and refinement. The census of 1875 gave her 
14,028 inhabitants. Her taxable property in 
1878 amounted to $25,360,100. 



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Lime Rocks. 



Item — The Old.Colouy Kaihoad. uniting 
Newport with Fall River and Boston, was 
built in 1S62. 

The Old Stone Mill, the unique and antique 
structure, so justly prized by all the inhab- 
itants of Newport, and equally studied by 
all strangers visiting the city, stands in the 
centre of Touro Park, enclosed with an iron 
fence, and is reverently kept in order by the 
city aifthorities. It is of circular form, 
about twenty-five feet in height, with an 
exterior diameter of twenty-three feet and 
an interior diameter of eighteen feet and 
nine inches, giving a wall thickness of a lit- 
tle more than two feet. It rests upon eight 
arches with eight columns that are about 
nine feet high. The rovigh chip stones of 
which it is made are laid in a superior mor- 
tar that still defies the teeth of time. At 
present it is well nigh mantled by a beautiful 
Wue clinging to its sides, and running over 
its rough top, gi\-ing to the whole a venerable 
and charming aspect. 

Touching this curious pile, as history is 
not positive respecting it. tradition, specula- 




tion and imagination have alike been con- 
sulted to spell out its story. Some con- 
clude, from very rational data, that it was a 
mill built by the first English colonists. 
Xo traditions have come to us from the 
Indians concerning it, and this silence is 
counted as having historic weight. Others 
incline to the poetic opinion that it was 
built by Norsemen, who are thought to have 
visited this coast in the tenth century and 
named this region Yineland. Another in- 
genious speculation was brought out in 
"Scribners Monthly Magazine •■ for March, 
1ST9. by Mr. E. G. Hatfield, in favor of its 
having been built as a baptistery by the 
Norwegian discoverers about the year one 
thousand. This view he urges by quite an 
illustrated history of Italian and Scandina- 
vian baptisteries. So the dear old stone 
mill will doubtless continue to be a fruitful 
theme for poets and romancers, and an 
object of stimulating study to all who visit 
Newport. 

As every one who writes respecting this 
curious and valued relic is at liberty to 
broach his own theory for the solution of 
the historical problem, we must be allowed 
to suggest that the structure might withal 
have been intended as a place of refuge and 
defense for the helpless people in Newport 
against the Indians prior to or during the 
panic and perils of the fearful King Philip's 
War. when all stood in such fear of the in- 
furiated aborigines, and when even on Block 
Island "there was a large stone house garri- 
soned, erected by James Sands. Esq., one of 
the first settlers.'"' This theory has the ad- 
vantage of accounting for the singular loop- 
holes or openings in the sides of the tower. 
But who shall finally untie the Gordian 
knot? 

The fact may be worth mentioning that 
the fir>t windmill on the island was built by 
the Eastons, in 1(563. 

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you will do well to enlist some 
genuine Newporter to relate to you 
the early sea voyages and the peril- 
ous love-risk of Gov. Samuel Crans- 
ton, -who died April 26, 1727, full 
of honors. He married a grand- 
daughter of Roger Williams. 

The State House iji Newport is 
the successor of the first Colony 
House or Town House, which was 
•completed in 1690. An addition 
was made to it and a turret to re- 
ceive a bell in 1691, The street 
leading to it was afterwards paved 
by funds obtained from the im- 
portation of slaves. The present 
edifice, composed of brick and free- 
stone, was completed in 17-42, and 
is still creditable for its architect- 
ure. The architect, famous in his 
day, was Peter Harrison. In 1757, in 
the stress of colonial war, the lead roofing 
was ordered to be removed and given for 
military uses. From the steps of this house 
the Declaration of Independence was read 
to an eager and enthusiastic multitude, July 
20, 1776, by Major John Handj', who, finally, 
venerable with age, re-read it from the same 
steps July 4, 1S26. What \^'ar waves have 
swept around and through this edifice. It 
was used as a hospital both by the British 
and French troops as they successively occu- 
pied the town during the Picvolution. In the 
Senate Chamber hangs tlie life-size portrait 
of Washington by Stuart — Rhode Island's 
gifted artist — who presented it to the city. 
This doubly precious painting is now pro- 
tected by glass. 







— r<afe_EwJ 



Fori JJumplings. 




" Ancient Days. 



Here are held the May sessions of the Leg- 
islature of the State and the election of Gov- 
ernor is cried to the multitude in the olden 
style, and " blue eggs" and cakes are sold in 
the shambles. We wonder if the caucuses 
and legislative sessions still observe the old 
Rule of Order passed by the Colonial As- 
sembly in 1648, — " That they that whisper 
or disturb ye Court or useth nipping terms 
shall forfeit sixpence for every fault." 

The City Hall was erected in 1763, and was 
originally styled "'The Granary," as it was 
constructed for a public market and granary. 
The lower part was for the market and the 
upper for stores, the rents of which were to 
be expended in purchasing grain for public 
uses. The money for its erection, £24,000, 

^ was raised by a lottery. Once it 

^ %\ as used as a station house for 
the police department. It is now 
devoted to the various depart- 
ments of the City Government. 
It stands at the foot of Wash- 
ington Square, facing the State 
House, and will attract notice 
fiom its Ionic style of architect- 
uie. 

The Channing House is found 
on Thames street, a fine look- 
ing building surrounded by trees, 
^ irden and lawn. It was erected 
b^ Jaheel Brenton in 1720. Here 
^A ashington was generously en- 
tertained, and here was born 



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Judse Haliburton, of Xova Scotia. These 
landmarks of history are appreciated by the 
people and by all visitors. 

The citizens will tell you of other historic 
edifices, such as that at the corner of Spring 
and Pelham streets, where the detested Gen. 
Prescott stopped for a season, though he 
was captured July 10, 1777, at the Overing 
House in Portsmouth. 

The traditionally wise may point out to 
you a building on Lopez Wharf, that they 
regard as having once been used as a slave 
corral, that also had connected with it a dis- 
tillery, thus recalling two old banes of 
society — rum aud slavery. The three story 
building as then used furnished rooms for 
slaves about twenty-five feet square. Here 
the unfortunates awaited the signing of in- 
voices or the bids of purchasers. 

The Vernon House is situated on the cor- 
ner of Mary and Clarke streets, and dates 
back to the "brave days of old.'' Its orig- 
inal owner was William Teruon, through 
whose efforts a creditable American navy 
was at last secured, as he was President of 
the Eastern Xavy-yard. In it were enter- 
tained distinguished men of the Revolution. 
While the island was in the hands of the 
British it was occupied by the enemy's offi- 
cers. On the arrival of the French fleet, 
after the departure of the English, Count 
Rochambeau selected it as his headquarters, 
and here he entertained Washington on his 
first visit to the city by a grand ball, after 
the gallant mode of the day. 

The Oldest House in Xewport is found on 
Spring street, near Sherman street. It is 
of stone, and was built bv Henry Bull, in 





fledwood Library. 



Jewish Cemetery. 

1(3.3S. Recently it has been repaired and 
wears in consequence something of a modern 
aspect. It will recall the hard toils of the 
brave settlers of the island. 

Fort Greene is among the Revolutionary 
memorials fondly cherished by the people 
aud thoughtfully visited by all tourists, hav- 
ing been thrown uj) for the defense of the 
town during the patriot struggle. It may be 
found on the shore of the harbor, near the 
upper end of Washington street, and nearly 
opposite Rose Island. In our imagination 
we here still seem to see our fathers standing 
to their guns aud defending those liberties 
which have become the glory of the conti- 
nent and the hope of the world. 

Fort Adams, conspicuous in any ^^ew 

of Xewport, stands in its calm yet defiant 

strength at the entrance of the harbor, and 

on the west of the city. With the exception 

of Fortress Monroe, this is the largest and 

costliest fortification in our country, as it 

giiards the grandest harbor on our coast. 

Its prodigious masonry, its hea\'y guns, its 

magazines, its quarters for officers and 

men, and all its warlike furnishings will 

richly repay the visitor's study. Fort 

Adams was begun in 1797, but was not 

completed till 1S2.5. 

Our State historian, S. G. Arnold. say& 
" the first battery erected at Xewport was 
close to the water, in front of Governor 
Arnold's house, near the spot now (ISGO) 
occupied by the Union Bank." 

In regard to the old forts erected for the 
defense of Xewport, Dr. Henry E. Turner 
gives the following facts: In 1702 the au- 
thorities ordered a fort of twelve guns on 



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Goat Island ; the cost was to be defrayed by 
confiscations of gold plate and money from 
pirates. In 1704 provision was made for a 
garrison. In 1705 allusion is made to Goat 
Island, alias Fort Island, and the defense is 
called Fort xlun. In 1706 an appropriation 
of £400 was made for work on " Her Majes- 
ty's Fort on Goat, alias Fort, Island,'" and 
£100 for a magazine. 

In 1732 its name was changed to Fort 
George. After the Revolution it was again 
changed to Fort ^^"ashiugton. In the ad- 
ministration of John Adams it was rebuilt 
and renamed Fort Wolcott, in honor of the 
then Secretary of War ; and that name it 
still retains. 

Fort Adams was built during the admin- 
istration of John Adams, probably on the 
site of an old battery. It was also in Mr, 
Adams' administration that Fort Hamilton 
was built on Rose Island, and old Fort 
Brown, named after Capt. Abiel Brown — 
now called the Dumpling Castle — was re- 
fitted on Conanicut. 

Of the numerous small batteries and earth- 
works thrown up in turn by the patriots, the 
English and the French, during the Revolu- 
tion, across the island and on its margin, we 
leave the islanders to speak. The whole 
island is freighted with war memories. 

Item. — We cannot forbear mentioning the 
fact that the first regular naval action in the 
Revolution occurred June 15, 1775, near Co- 
nanicut, between a patriot war sloop com- 
manded by Capt. (afterwards Commodore) 
Abraham Whipple and the Rose frigate under 
Capt. James Wallace, when Whipple cap- 
tured the tender to the Rose. This led to 
the following laconic correspondence, the 
spice of which justifies our insertion of it : — 

Lettee. — "You, Abraham Whipple, on 
the 10th of June, 1772, burned His Majesty's 
vessel, the Gaspee. and I will hang you at 
the yard-arm. James Wallace." 

AxswER.— " To Sir James Wallace. Sie : 
Always catch a man before you hang him. 
Abraham Whipple." 

The Liberty Tree that was should not be 
forgotten. At the head of Thames street is 
the lot made historic by the fact that here 
stood the tree consecrated to Libertj' in 1766 — 
the lot and tree given by William Read to the 
town " to be forever known by the name of 
the ' Tree of Liberty.' " This was Newport's 



stamp upon England's stamp acts. Natural- 
ly enough the tree was destroyed by the 
British during their occupancy of the place, 
but in 1783 it was replaced by anothei", which 
continued until the centennial year, 1876, 
when the present oak was planted to throw 
its shadows and acorns upon the century 
to come. The lot is properly surrounded by 
a stone and iron fence, symbolic of the solid 
principles of the people that stand to pro- 
tect the life of Liberty in our land 

The sloop Tartar, 115 tons, built by the 
colony early in 1740, captured in June a 
French schooner ; in 1741 sailed for the at- 
tack on Cuba ; in 1744 cruised on our coast \ 




Perry Monument. 

in 1745 armed with 130 men, sailed for the at- 
tack on Louisburg ; in Api'il had an engage- 
ment with the French frigate Renommee ; 
in June fought the battle of Famine Goose 
Bay ; in May, 1746, with eight officers and 
ninety men^ cruised on our coast ; in June 
went to Louisburg and Quebec ; in 1747 
again guarding our coast ; in 1748 captured 
a schooner ; soon dismantled and laid up ; 
sold at auction Oct. 26, 1748. Now who of 
"learned leisure" among the brave New- 
porters will give us in song or narrative the 
full Btory of the Tartar? Happily two of 
her cannon — hard old dogs of war — have 
been fitly canonized by being placed near 
the fountain in Washington Square. These 
guns also did duty in Fort George. 
The Redwood Library is widely known. 



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Abraham Redwood, in 1747, made a liberal 
coutribution towards a library for Newport. 
At that time an incorporation was effected, 
and plans for a building were furnished by 
Joseph Harrison, assistant architect of 
Blenheim House, England. The building, a 
purely Grecian structure of the Doric order, 
was completed in 1750. At its dedication the 
King of England contributed a royal gift of 
eighty-four volumes, now greatly prized 
from this historic fact. Recently the build- 
ing has been enlarged at the rear by an art 
gallery. Charles B. King generously be- 
stowed upon the institution his valuable gal- 
lery of paintings; and Edward King nobly 
enriched the walls with pieces of statuary, 
among which is found a life-size marble rep- 
resentation of the Dying Gladiator. The 
library stands near the Jewish Synagogue. 




J 




Trinity Cliiuch. 

Educational matters are vital to every 
community* By a vote of the town of New- 
port, Aug. 20, 16-40. Mr. Robert Lenthal was 
"called to keep a public school for the 



learning of youth," and for his encourage- 
ment there was "granted to him and his 
heirs 100 acres of land, and 4 more for a 
house lot;" also voted " that 100 acres should 
be laid forth and appropriated for a school, 
for encouragement of the poorer sort, to 
train up their youth in learning, and Mr. 
Robert Lenthal, while he continues to teach 
school, is to have the benefit thereof." 
This is said to have been the first effort 
towards establishing a public school in 
America, if not the first in the world. 

The Free Library, with public reading- 
room attached, open to all citizens and vis- 
itors, located on Thames street, was the gift' 
of Christopher Townsend. 

The Newport Reading Room, or the Club 

House, as it is called, on Bellevue avenue and 

Church street, is a private institution. 

The Rogers' High School, on Church 
street, is justly viewed with pride. The 
edifice was built from a fund of .$100,000 
left by William Sanford Rogers in his will 
for this purpose. 

Another benefactor of Newport is Geo. 
H. Norman, who, at his own expense, 
has introduced excellent water into the 
city from Easton's pond. 

Military organizations have always 
been necessary. Newport has a highly 
honorable military history, notwithstand- 
ing many of her true sons have been sin- 
cere and consistent Quakers, and she has 
always spared them the necessity of sac- 
rificing their convictions. 

The Newport Artillery Company was 
chartered in 1741, and the first comman- 
der was Jaheel Brenton. This spirited 
command was active in all the colonial 
wars with Indians, French and Span- 
iards; and though driven from their 
homes by the British in the Revolution, 
they battled bravely for the patriot cause 
in the Colonial Army. Again they were 
at their guns in the war of 1S12. True 
" to law and order they withstood the 
j Dorr Rebellion. Prompt and brave as 
=^ ever they bore their guns and nobly used 
them in the suppression of the Civil War. 
Since 1796 they have acted as the Governor's 
body-guard, escorting both him and the Gene- 
ral Assembly to and from the State House in 
the Mav elections. In 1794, at their dinner 



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in the State House, they had as guests Gen- 
eral Rochambeau aud Richards and their 
suites. They have had the honor of receiv- 
ing and escorting Presidents Washington, 
Jackson, Taylor, Fillmore, Grant and Hayes, 
Prince de Joinville and other celebrities — 

American and European. 

Their armory on Clarke street 
vpas built in 1837, but was en- 
larged in 1873, and is a model 
in design. Here they drill as 
infantry and artillery. Their 
relics and memorials are full 
■of stirring history ; a locket of 
Washington's hair; a letter 
from Washington to them ; a 
flag from the ladies of Provi- 
dence given in 1842 ; their uni- 
forms of 1808; a flag of 1812; a 
flag from California, presented 
in 1861. 

The Newport Guards were 
organized by Capt. James Perry 
at the close of the War of 1812, 
but were soon scattered. 

The Newport Light Infantry, 
formed in 1865, occupies an 
armory near the post-oifice. 

The Burnside Guai'ds were 
embodied in 1860 with sixty-five 
men, about one-fourth of them 
being veterans from the late 
war. They use the breech-load- 
ing rifle. Their armory is lo- 
cated on Bellevue avenue. 

Newport boasts the oldest fire 
department in the UnitedStates. 
The machine first used by En. 
gine Company No. 1 " was man- 
ufactured by Newsham & Ragg, 
of London, England, in 1736, 
and was presented to the town 
by Col. Godfrey Malbone, in 
1743." 

The fire company was duly 
formed June 3, 1750, at .the 
house of Samuel Spooner, who wag chosen 
captain, and consisted of sixteen mem- 
bers. The first engine house wa« erected 
in 1743 on Swinburne's wliai'f. Records say 
the old engine did service 115^ yeai's. It was 
a force pump filled by buckets. These 
leather bvickets belonged to tho household- 
ers, who were I'equired, in case of fire, to 



bring them otit and aid in supplying water 
for the engiue. 

The JewishCemetery will not escape notice. 
This little city of the dead — a veritable field 
of Machpelah — lies near the Synagogue. In 
it, among th-j honored dead, are the remains 








of Abraham Teuro. The iron fence and 
massive granite gateway were erected in 
1843 at an expense of $12,000 by Judah Touro, 
who also luft a fund to secure perpetual care 
for the grounds, and who now himself sleeps 
— as to I he flesh — here among his brethren 
of the ciiLiinicision and the Law of Moses. 
Annually the city authorities of Newport 



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appropriate a sum for flowers \to beautify 
and make fragrant the graves of these chil- 
dren of Israel. 

" And these sepulchral stones, so olc, and brown, 
That pave with level flags their burial-place, 

Seem like the tablets of the La-sv, thrown down 
And broken by Moses at the mountain's base." 

Since the planting of the country, marked 
progress has been made in monumental art. 
In an old burying-ground adjoining Rhode 
Island Cemetery we read: — 



Another charitable institution of the city 
is the Home for Friendless and Destitute Chil- 
dren, for which a house and a fund of .slO.OOO 
was given by Christopher Townseud. 

" Love thou thy land, with love far-brought 
From out the storied Past, aud used 
Within the Present, but transfused 
Thro" future time by power of thought." 

The Perry Monument is always viewed 
with interest. Patriotism and valor are de- 
servedly held in high repute in America ; 




Here lyeth the Body 

of Roger Baster 
Bachelor Block mackr 
Aged 66 yeares He Dyed 
33 Day of Aprel 1687 
He was one of the Fi 
rst Beginers of a Chv 
rch of Christ observing 

Of the 7th Day Sab 

bath of THE LORD IX 

XE AXD BEGAX 23D-1671, 

The Newport Hospital.— -This benevolent 
institution was incorporated in 1872, and 
began with the sum of §24,123.40 contrib- 
uted by leading citizens and friends of the 
city. The building, in every way suitable, is 
finely located on Friendship street, where is 
enjoyed a delightful view of the sea. Gra- 
tuitous services are rendered to the patients 
by the best physicians aud surgeons of the 
city. Individuals and the churches annually 
contribute to the support of the institution. 

The Asylum for the Poor is found on 
Coaster's Harbor Island, which contains 
about ninety-two acres, and is vi-Jued at 
$35,000. The building was completed in 
1822. 



and nowhere are they more honored than in 
the State of Rhode Island. Conspicuous 
among the bright names on History's roll, 
for deeds wrought on sea and land, are Hop- 
kins, Greene aud Perry. 
1 Oliver Hazard Perry was born in Rhode 
Island in 1785 ; entered the navy in 1798 ; 
served in the Mediterranean in the exijedi- 
tion against Tripoli ; and distinguished him- 
self more particularly in the war with Great 
B'.-itain by winning a splendid naval victory 
over a superior force on Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 
1813, when he made the memorable report, 
"W^ have met the enemy and they are 
ours." He died in 1S19. His grave is in the 
Island Cemetery, marked by a plain, unpre- 
tending granite shaft ; but the spot is sacred 
to every patriot heart. 

Commodore M. C. Perry has the honor of 
the full size bronze statute, in uniform, 
standing upon a mammoth granite base, sur- 
rounded with appropriate ilhtstrations and 
inscriptions in bronze, in Touro Park, near 
, the Old Stone Mill. This tribute was pre- 
I sented . to Newport by the daughter of the 
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August Belmont, of New York, and par- 
ticularly commemorates the services of this 
distinguished naval commander in effecting 
the important treaty between the United 
States and China. The Commodore was 
born in 1795 in South Kingston, and died in 
1858. His voyages, in three volumes, were 
published in 1S56. 

The Jewish Synagogue is sacredly cher- 
ished. Jews first settled in Rhode Island a 
little prior to 1684. Their freedom here and 
their participation in civil affairs was in 
accordance with the principles and spirit of 
the colony. Xowhere else in the world had 
they a like reception. Here the children of 
Abraham could freely mingle with the Gen- 
tiles. 

The venerable Jewish Synagogue was fin- 
ished and solemnly dedicated to the Hebrew 
ritual in 1763, when such worship was 
nowhere else tolerated in A m e r i c a . 
Among the worshipers then and for 
many years were some of the wealthy 
and influential citizens of the colonies. 
During the Eevolution, however, when 
Newport was occupied by the British, 
the congregation was dispersed, and for 
sixty years following no Hebrew read- 
ing of the Law and chanting of the 
Psalms were heard within the sacred 
walls. But services full and solemn were 
held here in the summer of 1877. The 
edifice stands on Touro street — a con- 
tinuation of Bellevue avenue, Abraham 
Touro left the sum of $20,000 in charge 
of the city of Newport, with instructions 
to appropriate the interest in preserv- 
ing and beautifying the building, grounds 
and street adjacent. His wishes have 
been piously regarded. 

The Quaker Meeting House. — Newport 
may boast of the largest Quaker Meeting 
House in America, and the one that is 
still the most largely attended. It is 
found on Marlboro street, exceedingly 
plain as becomes the Friends, but sub- 
stantial, honest, quiet and chaste. Here, 
in June of each alternate year, are held 
the celebrated Yearly Meetings for New 
England. Here New England's loved Quaker 
poet, Whittier, has recited some of his 
purest, sweetest measures. 

Trinity Church is cherished with historic 



pride by the people of Newport. It was 
built in 1726. Aid in its erection was re- 
ceived from the mother country. Queen 
Anne presented a bell, which, though re- 
cast, is still in use. The spire is still 
surmounted by the Crown of England. 
Rev. James Honeyman had been sent, in 
1704, by the Society for Propagating the 
Gospel in Foreign Parts, to minister to 
the congregation that had been gathered in 
1699; and a library was presented, apart of 
which is yet in possession of the church. 
The organ was donated by the celebrated 
Dean Berkeley, and bears the date 1733; and 
the Bishop's Mitre adorns the case. During 
the Revolution vandal hands tore the lion 
and the unicorn from the chancel and 
burned them. Portions of the interior, the 
hexagonal sounding-board, the high square 






Spouting Cave. 

pews in the old part, and the clerk's pew and 
desk, remain as they were constructed in 
the reign of King George. 

The First Baptist Church was planted by 
the famous John Clarke, and dates back at 



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Forty Steps. 

least to 1644. Here have always been incul- 
cated the principles of Rhode Island. Many 
noble and distinguished men have been mem- 
bers of this body. The present church edifice 
was completed in 1846. Eev. John Callender, 
pastor of this church, wrote in 1738 the 
famous "Century Sermon," the first history 
of the colony of Rhode Island that ever was 
written. 

The Second Baptist Church was organized 
in 1656, and has had its honor from able 
preachers and worthy members. Still re- 
membered is the eloquent speaker and writer, 
Dr. J. O. Choules. 

The Central Baptist Church worshiping 
on Clarke street, was organized in 1847. The 
edifice once belonged to the Congregation- 
alists, and in it preached Dr. Ezra Stiles, 
afterwards President of Yale College. The 
building erected in 1733 suffered at the hands 
of the British in the Revolution. Its Bap- 
tist occupancy "will be remembered for the 
ministry of Rev. Henry Jackson, D. D. 

The United Congregational Church was 
made up of two former churches. The 1st 
Church, under Rev. N. Clap, was organized 
in 1720. The 2d, under Rev. Mr. Adams, 
was gathered in 1728. The 1st erected their 
second house and cut on the corner-stone 
the motto "For Christ and Peace, 1729;" 
the house is now owned by the Unitarians. 
Dr. Samuel Hopkins labored with the 1st 
Church. Dr. Ezra Stiles — President of Yale 
College — labored with the 2d Church. The 
two churches united in the present organiza- 



tion in 1833, and their new house of worship, 
found on Spring and Pelham streets, was 
dedicated June 4, 1834. The old house of 
the 2d church, where Dr. Stiles preached, 
was sold in 1847 to the Central Baptist 
Church. 

The Methodist Church hold their services 
in the old edifice on Marlboro street. Here 
rose the first Methodist steeple in our coun- 
try. 

All Saint's Chapel is located on Cottage 
street, corner of Beach street, and is used by 
the summer visitors, and is closed in the 
winter. 

The Unitarians still hold their service in 
the edifice on Mill street, erected in 1729, 
where once Dr. Clianning officiated as pastor. 

St. Mary's Catholic Church is located on 
Spring street. Its spire is visible at great 
distances from the city. 

The Shiloh Baptist Church is composed of 
colored people, and was organized in 1867. 

The Drives are a part of Newport's attrac- 
tion. Par excellence, the drive is Bellevue 
AvEXUE beginning near the Jewish Syna- 
gogue and Cemetery, at the junction of 
Touro and Kay streets, and running south 
about two miles to Bailey's Beach, near 
Coggeshall Ledge, passing the Newport 
Reading Room, the Redwood Library, Touro 
Park, the Old Stone Mill, the Atlantic House, 
the Ocean House, and a great number of 
stately and superb villas with their rich, 
artistic grounds, belonging to the elite and 
affluent of our land. Here may be witnessed 
the popular and costly display of horses, car- 
riages and equipages. But no pen may de- 
scribe a summer afternoon on this boulevard 
of fashion, nor will the visitor ever tire of 
the ever changing scenes and crowds. 

The Ocean Drive begins at the south 
extremity of Bellevue avenue, and follows 
the ocean line of the island westward, pass- 
ing Almy's Pond, Spouting Rock, Lily Pond, 
Gooseberry Island, Cherry Neck, Price's 
Neck, Brentou Point, Reef and Light-ship, 
then, turning northward passing Castle Hill, 
where it joins Harrison avenue that leads 
by Fort Adams and Brenton Cave, returning 
to the city — making an enchanting drive of 
about seven miles. Along this highway 
commanding the beauties of sea and shore, 
elaborate turn-outs and toilettes pass as a 



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pageant. Tourists, besides studying rocks, 
caves, cottages, villas and towers, may gaze 
on Beaver Tail, Point Judith, Block Island, 
and fleets of commerce speeding along the 
ocean. 

William Brenton was the first settler on 
Brenton's Neck, and owned a tract of about 
2,000 acres, bounded northerly by a line 
drawn from the Lime Eocks straight east to 
the Cliffs. Tradition says he erected the 
largest house then known in the American 
Colonies, and known as the " Four Chimney 
House," with a hall sixteen feet wide run- 
ning through the centre. It occupied tha 
spot where now stands the residence of H. 
F. Batty. The old Brenton Castle was named 
Hammersmith, after Mr. Brenton's native 
place in England. 

The much-beaten Bath Egad — beaten by 
wheels of every grade, and by feet from 
every clime — leaves Bellevue avenue be- 
tween Touro Park and the Ocean House, 
and passes first to Easton's Beach, where 
throng the thousands for their cooling san- 
itary baths and then continues eastward 
across the neck terminated by Easton's 
Point, and reaches Sachuest Beach and finds 
at last its terminus at Smith's Beach on Sea- 
connet Bay. Fascinating cottages and villas 
lie along this thoroughfare and look far out 
on the vast deep. 

Narragansett Avenue reaches from 
Thames street on the west beginning south 
of Wellington avenue, crossing Bellevue 
Avenue at right angles, and terminates at 
the Forty Steps, where is had a delightful 
view of Easton's Beach, and the sporting 
bathers Easton's Point, Seaconnet Point 
and the dark blue boundless sea. On this 
high avenue are some of the most expensive 
residences in the city. 

Indian Avenue more recently laid out, 
begins at the east end of Bath road, on Sa- 
chuest Neck, and runs northward on the east- 
ern shore of the island, overlooking Seacon- 
net Bay and Little Conipton. This runs 
through the romantic reign so much loved 
and frequented by Bishop Berkley. 

Washington Street is on the Point 
opposite the north end of Goat Island. 

Thames Street lies along the harbor 
where lie the piers, wharves, warehouses and 
the memorials of the old commercial days 
of the city. 



Spring Street lies between Thames 
street and Bellevue avenue, and holds many 
of the old residences of the city. 

Kay Street may be regarded as the 
northern extension of Bellevue Avenue. 

Other important streets are readily found 
by the visitor. So also are the old roads 
and thoroughfares leading out to different 
portions of the rich romantic island. To 
Paradise, to the Glen, to Lawton' s Valley, 
to Miantinomi Hill, State Hill, Quaker Hill, 
Butt's Hill, the Coal Mine and the Stone 
Bridge. 

Miantonomi Hill is a height that cannot 
be hid. From time immemorial this was a 
. kingly seat. Originally it was called Won- 
umetonomy Hill from the last sachem of 
the Aquednecs who were subjugated by the 
Narragansetts. By an inevitable sequence, 
when the regal height fell to the lot of the 
co-king with Canonicus, it was named Mian- 
tinomi Hill, as here the plumed and cinctured 
monarch held his royal wigwam and court, 
and here affixed his sign manual — an arrow 
— to his decrees. This luckless sachem fell 
by treacherous hands, in Connecticut, in 164.3. 
For brevity the height is sometimes called 
Tonomy Hill. It is situated on the road^tO' 
Coddington Point, and is counted the high- 
est point of land in the vicinity of Newport. 




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Whitehall. 

What histories and imaginations linger 
around this hoary lieiglit. Of Miantonomi's 
appearance and state ceremonies on receiv- 
ing a deputation, in 1636, Johnson in his 
Wonder Working Providence, B. ii, ch. 6, 
thus speaks of the "young Prince Meanti- 
noniy," who was of great stature, stern and 
cruel, " causing all his nobility and attendants 
to tremble at his sijeech." " When the mes- 
sengers began to deliver their message, the 
Sachem lay extended on a mat, and his nobil- 
ity sat round on the ground with their legs 
doubled up , their knees touching their chins. 
At the close of their message Meantinomy 
replied, he was willing to have peace with the 
English, but not with the Pequots." 

Xear the foot of the eminence is the 
famous Malbone Place. The castle was 
burned in 1765. During the Revolution the 
hill was strongly fortified by the British ; 
remains of the earthworks may still be 
studied by visitors. 

The Beaches are well known. By the term 
The Beach, is usually understood the first 
beach, directly east of the city, and com- 
monly named Eastox's Beach, past which 
runs Bath road, and where the multitudes 
flock to dip and sport in the bhie and spark- 
ling waters of the Atlantic that flow up over 
the pure sands into the protected cove. 

Further to the east by the same road is 
Sachuest Beach, longer but less pro- 
tected than Easton's Beach. Bailey's 
Beach is two miles south of the city at tli. 
extremity of Bellevue avenue. Smith- 
Beach lies o;i Seaconnet River or Bay, pro- 
tected from the ocean by Sachuest Neck. 
'■ Break, break, break. 

On thj' cold gray stones, O sea,— 
And I would that my toug-ue would utter, 
The thoughts that arise iu me." 



Spouting Rock is on the south shore of 
the Xeck northwest from Coggeshall's Ledge 
and northeast from Gooseberry Island, and 
may be seen from Ocean avenue as it passes 
south of Almy's Pond. Here, beneath the 
masses of rock, is a cavern into which the 
sea at times rolls by its billows with tremen- 
dous force, while an opening on the top of 
the cave allows the compressed water to 
escape with thundering noise and foaming 
spray as though some monster whale was 
groaning and spouting in a dying agony. 

The Forty Steps are found between East- 
on's Beach — the famous beach for bathing — 
and Ochre Point, rising from the rocky 
shore to the lookout plateau and seen with 
great advantage by the bathers and the 
spectators in their equipages as they come to 
look upon the sportive scenes. 

Immediately at the south of the Forty 
Steps is Conrad's Cave to furnish sugges- 
tions to all who are poetically or historically 
disposed. Down to the Forty Steps and Con- 
rad' s Cave leads Narragansett avenue, at the 
terminus of which, above the steps, there is 
a splendid view of the ocean. 

The Beach Pavilion, just beyond the 
benches on the beach, has a fairy air and 
charm, with its two stories and Swiss roof, 
furnished with piazzas and sujiplied by tables 
of luxuries, tempting viands, fancy goods, 
and photographer's gallery. The praises of 
this pavilion are secure with the bathers and 
lovers of the beautiful and refreshing. 

Purgatory is situated between Sachuest 
Beach and Easton's Point. A wilder view 




Happy Valley. 



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when fully readied one may scarcely find in 
New England. In some geological agony of 
the ages gone, some fierce shock or upheaval, 
this deep, yawning fissure in the rocks took 
its exciting altitude. The chasm is 160 fe"fet 
in length, from S to 1-4 feet in width, and 
over 60 feet deep. Here linger diabolical 
legends and wizard stories to make your 
hair stand on end and your voice to stick in 
your throat. 



DiSE. The latter is indeed a peaceful ra- 
vine among the wild and seemingly turbu- 
lent rocks that nearly enclose it as a wall. 
On the east of Paradise the splintered 
rocks and stone have received the name of 
Paradise Lost. Near Hanging Rocks is 
Whitehall, the house built by Berkeley 
nearly a century and a half ago. 

The portrait painter, John Smibert, 
Italy, came to America with Berkeley, and 




Land's End. 



Wiseacres will greatly entertain you with 
marvelous accounts of this weird and 
charmed spot; how, for instance, his hoofed 
and horned Majesty, who here had a sum- 
mer resort if not his home, in an hour of 
domestic infelicity chastised a sinning squaw 
by madly hurling her into this chasm, so 
hotly angered in the effort as to leave the 
print of his fiery foot in the solid rock. 
Another legend is that a fair and doubting 
damsel, tested the tender proposition of her 
lover, by requiring that he should leap 
across the top of the dizzy gulf. The chal- 
lenged nobly performed the feat and then 
turning, politely waved the damsel a final 
adieu. These stories have their wholesome 
morals. 

The Hanging Rocks are sometimes termed 
Berkeley's Seat, since tradition has it that, 
seated in the shadow of this huge mass of 
angular rocks, the Bishop planned and 
penned his celebrated poem and some of his 
remarkable writings on idealism, such as 
" The Minute Philosopher." The legend- 
wreathed spot is near Sachuest Beach, and 
in the vicinity of Happy Valley or Para- 



here painted the portraits of Dr. McSparran 
and Mrs. McSparran. He affirmed that our 
Indians were of Tartar stock as they re- 
sembled the Tartars whom he had painted 
for the Grand Duke of Florence. By the 
way the liberality of Berkeley may be dis- 
covei-ed by a single one of his sentences, 
uttered in a sermon at Newport : " Give the 
devil his due ; John Calvin was a gi-eat 
man." We quote the last stanza of the 
bishop's happy poem : — 

" Westward the course of empire takes its way ; 
The four first acts already past, 
A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; 
Time's noblest offspring is the last." 

" The clanging- sea-fowl came and went, 
The hunter's gun in the marshes rang." 

Land's End has its charms. Professors of 
the long bow and gun, in high boots, short 
jacket and skull cap, with game bag and 
canine retinue, always seek extreme and 
rare places for the exercise of their science 
in bringing down duck, plover, sander- 
lings and sandpipers. If possible, they 
would press to Ultima Thule ; but in lieu of 
this distant realm, they have named their 



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favorite haunt in the region of Rhode Island, 
after a famous English point, Land's End. 
The bold cape is recognized as the point 
beyond the extremity of Bellevue avenue 
and southeast of Spouting Eock, looking 
upon Coggshall's Ledge. 

Where brief sojoui-ners, iu the cool soft air. 
Forget their inland heats, hard toil, and j eai-long 
care." 

The Glen.— Picnicers will talk to you poeti- 
cally and enthusiastically of this spot which 
they reach by a ride of seven miles from 
Newport in the enjoyment of enchanting 
views of the island estates and glimpses of 
adjoining bays and islands and the hills of 
the main land. The Glen is on the Seaconnet 
shore of Portsmouth. What sweet stories 
are told in the ravine at the picnics and 
afterwards we must leave to the fancy of 
those who relish similar scenes. It is be- 
lieved by the old folks that the little rogue 
Cupid has somewhere a quiver in the Glen. 
Similar thoughts of love and beauty attach 
to Lawtox's Valley on the Narragansett 
side of Portsmouth, and it is regarded by 
some as a summer centre of the Boston Radi- 
cal Club. 

North Point, in Middletown, projecting 
into Seaconnet Bay, with its ledge of rocks 
and their memorable crevice should not be 
overlooked. Here, during the British occu- 





The Glen. 



Old Wind Mill. 



pancy of the island, Isaac Barker, feigning 
to be a Tory, remained on his farm and gath- 
ering from the enemy their purposes and 
plans, conveyed the intelligence by a set of 
prearranged signs, with bars and a stake in 
a stone wall and by letters hid in the crevice 
of the ledge to the patriot forces on the east 
side of the bay who read his signals with 
spy-glasses, and by night crossed the bay 
and obtained his papers. This he did for 
fourteen months, though a British colonel 
was quartered at his house. His system of 
signals was arranged between himself and 
Lieut. Cliapin, of Sherburne's regiment, 
stationed on the opposite shore. 

Portsmouth Grove is found upon the 
western shore of the island of Rhode 
Island, in the township of Portsmouth, 
on the line of the Old Colony and Newport 
Railroad. It was formerly a popular pub- 
lic resort. During the Rebellion this spot 
was selected by the government for hos- 
pital purposes, and. here in suitable bar- 
racks and buildings covering many acres, 
were the sick and wounded brought from 
the southern fields of battle and prisons- 
A touching chapter would be the full his- 
tory of the Portsmouth Grove Hospital. 
Only graves now remain as memorials 
of that occupancy. Something may be 
told you by the surviving sufferers, the 
soldiers that guarded, and the surgeons 
that served during the trying years. I'e- 
tween Portsmouth Grove and Prudence 
Island lies Dyer's Island. 



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TOWER HILL HOUSE, Narragausett Pier, R. I. 



Prices $2.50 per day 

Will be open for Boarders from June 25th until 
This house has the finest situation on the New 
(while almost on its Inink) with an unol)Structed 
ton's Reef, from the I'iazza in front ; Point Judith, 
with the beautiful villages of Wakefield, Peacedal 
niilcs, from west piazza. It is hghted with gas, 
gantlv furnished, bells to the office. A bountiful 
to and from the beach FREE. 
C. E. ATWOOD, Cashier, 



, or $ I O to $ I 5 per week. 

Sept. 10th, under the same management as last year. 

England coast, being some 200 feet above the ocean, 

view of Newport, Beaver Tail, the Light Ship on Bren- 

Hluek Island, and Long Island Sound, from south piazza; 

I', Kingston, and a wide expanse of hill and dale for 15 

has running water on every floor ; rooms large and ele- 

table, and good cooks ; a good stable, with conveyance 

J. A. WOOD, Proprietor. 

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Bav within a half hour's ride of Providence, and a few steps of Cedar Grove Railroad Station, and five 
minutes' walk from the Steamboat Landing. The trifling sum of 30 Cents will secure jou a first-class 
Shore Dinner, served by experienced parties. This well-known Resort is located on the road lead- 
in"- to Bullock's Point. Here horses will be fed for 35 cents. Daily Bakes, under the management of 
Geo. W. Case, assure all of its patrons entire satisfaction. Reasonable terms tor Season Cottages can be 
made by addressing the proprietor, CEO W • CASE 

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PHOTOGRAPHS. 




The Popular Photographer, 

No. 171 Westminster Street, 

Makes no pretensions to elegantly furnished 
Reception Rooms, but he has facilities for the 
production of Fine Pictures equal to those 
made in any other Photograph Room in the 
citj% and is making them at less than one-half 
the money. He invites inspection and com- 
parison. 

The continued crowd of patrons he has had 
during the past year is proof of the satisfaction 
given. 

It will be for the interest of those wanting 
pictures Copied, or from Life, of any size, to call 
on him before they have them made elsewhere. 

REMEMBER THE PLACE: 

MORTON'S, No. 171 Westminster Street, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

J^"Opposite H. T. Root's, near the corner of Eddy. 



CrocteiT,llliM, Glass, GasiIeroseDeFixtms. 

G. & C. P. HUTCHINS, 

Have added to their usual large stock, a full assortment of new and desirable Patterns. 

China Dinner and Tea Sets. Granite Dinner and Tea Sets. 

NIBW DE^IQNiS) IN TQIhET BET'B. 

GAS FIXTURES from four celebrated Manufactories. New Kerosene Extension 

Chandeliers. Kerosene Burners, Chimneys and Shades. Elegant Designs 

in Plated Tea Sets, Ice Pitchers, Castors, Cake Baskets, and a large 

variety of KNIVES and FORKS, SPOONS, LADLES, &c. 

Together with a full assortment of 

Goblets, T-Qmblers, Dislies, [Preserve Jars, «fec. 

Purchasers will find our prices very low, and best quality of goods. 
Please call and examine our stock. 

133 & 135 Westminster St., 21, 23, 25 & 27 Dorrance St. 
G. & C. P. HUTCHINS. 



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NEW SHOREHAM, R. 1.^-^- 



This house is newly built and fui-nished, situated on a high bluff, south of the landing, 
twenty rods west of the Spring House, with a splendid view of the sea and har- 
bor, and overlooking the breakwater. It is within five minutes' walk of 
the landing, and ten minutes' drive of the beach. Daily excur- 
sionists provided for at reasonable rates. 
Board by the Day or Week, $6 to $ I O, according to Rooms. 
OPEN JULY 1. J, IS . H.O!se, Proprietor. 

CONVEYANCE TO THE ISLAND— By steaiuor CiUionicus fi-oiu Providence at 9 a. m., touching at 
Newport at 10.45 every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday ; returning- on same days at 2.45 p. m. By 
steamer Ella from Norwich at 8.30, troni New London at '.i.oO, and Stonington so as to connect with train 
from Pro\idence taking mail, every Momlay and Friday; returning on same days after stopping three 
hours— each steamer taking and bringing the United States Mail. 



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This favorite hotel is one of the best constructed on the Island, and was built by the present pro- 
prietor in 1876. It is well ventilated and commodious in all its apartments; is within five minutes' 
walk of the beach, convenient for boating and fishing; is easily reached by steamers from Provi- 
dence, Newport, New London and Stonington; well adapted for the accommodation of from 75 to 
100 boarders ; o'jliging servants. Early breakfasts given to parties going out fishing. Mr. H. C. 
Littlefield, as former jjroprietor, was well known as a celebrated' caterer, which is a sufficient guar- 
antee for its present management. A mineral spring supplies the bouse. 



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OPEN JUNE 20th. 



THE CENTRAL HOUSE, 

BLOCK ISLAND, R, L 



Is beautifully located, near the church, and from it pond fishing, sailing and sea bathing 
are convenient. Prices moderate. Carriages at the wharf, from 
the house, on the arrival of boats. 



Ray s. Littlefield, 



Proprietor. 



C(JNVEYANCE TO THE ISLAND—Bv steamer Canonicus from Providence at 9 a. m., touching at 
Newport at 10.45 every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; returning on same days at 2Ao p.m. By 
steamer Ella from Norwich at 8..30, from New London at 9.30, and Stonington so as to connect with train 
from Providence taking mail, ev^ery Mon(Jay and Friday; returning on same days after stopping three 
hours— each steamer taking and bringing the United States Mail. 

grrjAR Olsr OF "1879- 

ATLAITIC QmBDll. 

J. VOLKMAR, Manager. 

This new resoi-t is now open to the public, and the management feel assured that they can satisfac- 
torily cater to all who may be pleased to favor the Garden with then- patronage. Three first-class Bowl- 
ing Alleys, and Dance Hall. Refreshments in abundance. Shore Dnuiers a specialty. Popular prices. 



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TIME & LABOR-SAVING TABLE 

FOR COMPUTING "WAGES. 

KELLOGG, - PRINTER, 

ig Westminster St., Providence. R. I. 

Fine work— no other. All old style. Send for cir- 
cular. 




J. H. ATWATER, - 26 Potter St,, Prov., R, I. 
Sawing, Turn ing and Light Wood Work 

OF ALL KINDS, LOW FOR CASH. 



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Marquand's Cottage. 
West of the old battle-field of 1778, on favorite 



the promontory of the Xarragansett shore 
line of Portsmouth, the geological student 
will find the much discussed Coal Mine, 
celebrated by Bryant's poem, and of which 
a Yale student in debating the question, 
" Will Rhode Island coal burn ? " said: " In 
the last great conflagration when the heav- 
ens and the earth shall be rolled together 
as a scroll and the elements shall melt 
with fervent heat, the last thing to yield 
will be Rhode Island coal." 

The Hotels of Newport deserve a few 
words of record. The Ocean House is 
situated on Bellevue avenue, between Bath 
Road and Bowery street, and is of immense 
proportions doing a large business in the 
summer months. The Aquidneck House 
is on Pelham street, between Spring street 
and Touro Park, and is highly prized for its 
quietness. The Perry House, one of the 
finest appearing buildings in 
■the city, is located near the de- 
pot of the Old Colony and New- 
port Railroad. The Restau- 
rant Hartman, on Bellevue 
avenue, is the favorite French 
hotel and the headquarters of 
foreigners of distinction. The 
■Cliff Cottages with their 
hotel svipplying all their tables 
on a peculiar plan, are on the 
Cliffs, overlooking the sea, and 
in the direction of Hanging 
Rocks. 

The Atlantic House, on the 
•corner of Pelham street and 
Bellevue avenue, an old and 



hotel in former years, on the 
breaking out of the Rebellion, was accepted 
by the United States Government as the 
headquarters and school of the United 
States Naval Academy, that was obliged to 
leave Maryland. Thus for four years the 
hotel was in the hands of our Government. 
Cottages are a large part of Newport's 
wealth and beauty. While Narragausett 
Pier, Long Branch and other watering 
places are sometimes styled Cities of Hotels, 
Newport is emphatically the City of Cot- 
tages, for here they are numbered by hun- 
dreds and are unsurpassed in their beauty 
and elegance. Most who resort here come 
not as visitors but as summer residents, 
occupying their Swiss cots, chateaux, villas 
and mansions, on avenues, cliffs and heights, 
with their families and attendants. The 
cost of these beautiful edifices range from 
f5,000 to $200,000. 




Lurillard's Cottage. 



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NARRAGANSETT SEA AND SHORE. 




The Old Coddington House. 



A volume might be filled with descriptions 
of these cottages, their furnishings, their 
grounds and the public careers of their 
owners. Quite noticeable on the east of 
Bellevue avenue, below LeRoy avenue, is 
the residence of Geo. Peabody Wetmore, of 
New York. A little beyond, on the same 
side of the avenue, is the charming summer 
house built by Nathan C. Mathews, of Bos- 
ton, constructed of brick and wood, and 
surrounded by ample and ornamental 
grounds. It is now the property of Mr. 
Keene, the Californian broker. On the 
cliffs near Ochre Point is seen the attractive 



residence of the widely known L. L. Loriil- 
lard, of New York. On Rhode Island 
avenue and Buena Vista street stands the 
mansion of H. G. Marquand, of New York. 
James Gordon Bennett has chosen to locate 
on Bellevue avenue, his lot extending down- 
to the cliffs, W. B. Lawrence is on Law- 
rence avenue near the cliffs. A. Belmont is- 
on the corner of Bellevue and Marine ave- 
nue. These are but a few samples and il- 
lustrations of the architectural beauty to be 
found on every hand from Brenton's Point 
to Easton's Pond, and on over the island. 




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XEW YORK. 

*Ex-Gov. E. D. Morgan, Xarragansett ave. 

Charles DeRliam, Bellevue avenue. 

*Mrs. C. B. Hosack. Harrison avenue. 

Robert H. 3[cCurdy, Hallidon Hall. 

*F. H. Schermerliorn, Xarragansett avenue. 

J. F. Kernochan, Webster st. and the cliffs. 

*Mrs. Daniel B. Bacon, Lawton's Valley. 

Mrs. G. Griswold Gray, Bellevue avenue. 

John W. Field, Ocean avenue. 

Dr. John P. Gray, Utica, X. Y., Washington 
street. 

*Herman T. Livingston, on the cliffs near 
bathing beach. 

*John W. Downing, Malbone avenue. 

*Pierre Lorillard, Lawrence avenue and the 
cliffs. 

*J. Grunhut, Harrison avenue. 

*Commodore C. H. Baldwin, U. S. X., Belle- 
vue avenue. 

Mrs. Waldron Pell, Greenough Place. 

C. B. Barclay, Bellevue avenue. 

John Xeilson, Paradise Farm. 

*Mrs. R. M. Blatchford, Beach street. 

*Miss E. Blatchford, Catharine street. 

*Judge Blatchford, Greenough Place. 

*E. J. Herrick, Clay and Dixon streets. 

*M. H. Sanford, Washington street. 

*Miss Emily O. Gibbes, Gibbs avenue. 

*Mrs. Isaac C. Kendall, Washington street. 

*A. A. Low, Castle Hill. 

*William Redmond, Kay street. 

Mrs. Henry A. Tailer, Bellevue avenue. 

Thomas H. Magee, Clay and Dixon streets. 

A. S. Hatch, Kay street. 

Thomas X. Dale, Patterson, X. J., near 

Easton's Pond. 
*Samuel Zeimer, Bellevue avenue. 
*James G. Bennett, Catharine street. 
*Richard M. Hunt, Toiiro and Church streets. 
*Miss Jane Hunt, Aryault street. 
*George M. Miller, Bellevue avenue. 
*John Knower, Bellevue avenue. 
*Peleg Hall, Coggeshall avenue. 
*James P. Kei'nochan, Marine avenue. 
*C. Francis Bates, Coddington Point. 
♦Benjamin Bryer, Miantonomi. 
*John Carey, Jr., Xarragansett avenue. 
*Edmund Tweedy, Bellevue court. 
Mrs. Colford Jones (deceased), Bellevue ave. 



*Maturin Livingston, Bellevue court. 
*Mrs. Alexander Van Rennessalear, Beach 

View avenue. 
*Hamilton Hoppin, Beach View avenue. 
*Silas H. Witherbee, Honneyman Hill. 
*George R. Fearing, Xarragansett avenue. 
*Henry S. Fearing, Annanclale road. 
*Mahlon Sands, Ledge road. 
*Hon. August Belmont, Bellevue avenue. 
*Mrs. A. G. Stout, Bellevue avenue. 
*William R. Travers, Xarragansett avenue. 
Mrs. Charles L. Anthony, Bellevue avenue 

and the cliffs. 
*John Paine, Bellevue avenue and the cliffs. 
*Robert B. Potter, Ocean ave. and the cliffs. 
*Daniel Parish, Bellevue ave. and the cliffs. 
*Hon. Levi P. Morton, Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. George Francis Train, Bellevue avenue. 
*Col. G. T. M. Davis, Bellevue avenue. 
*Mrs. H. LeRoy Edgar, Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. E. U. Coles, Bellevue avenue. 
*Charles H. Russell, Xarragansett avenue. 
*John R. Ford, Harrison avenue. 
*George P. Wetmore, Bellevue avenue. 
*Charles F. Chickering, Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. C. A. Wyeth, Ayrault street. 
*C. A. Andrews, Bellevue avenue. 
*George F. Jones, Harrison avenue. 
*Frederic Jones, Harrison avenue. 
Mrs. Loring Andrews, Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. J. T. Gibert, Bellevue avenue. 
A. G. Thorpe, Wellington avenue. 
*John LaFarge, Sunny side Place. 
Major A. S. Macomb, (estate,) Kay street. 
Hon. John W. Chanler, (estate,) Bath road. 
Arthur Brouson, Castle Hill. 
*Miss S. O. Hoffman, Bellevue avenue and 

the cliffs. 
*Robert Ray, (estate,) Xarragansett avenue. 
*Mrs. S. S. Whiting, Bellevue avenue. 
*A. L. Whiting, Bellevue avenue. 
*Mrs. Paran Stevens, Bellevue avenue. 
*Royal Phelps, Clay street. 
*Mrs. M. L. Burns, Bellevue avenue. 
Daniel Torrance, Bellevue avenue. 
*Frederic Sheldon, Xarragansett avenue. 
H. A. Wright, Rhode Island avenue. 
*J. S. Bryce, Bellevue avenue. 
*Rev. H.'C. Potter, d. d., Rhode Island ave. 
*Henry G. Marquand, Rhode Island avenue. 



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*F. S. G. D'Hauteville, Bellevue avenue. 

C. B. Parkinson, Bellevue avenue. 
*Mrs. Eugene Ketteltas, Webster street. 
*VVilliam Edgar, Beach street. 

*Mrs. E. M. Willett, Catliarine street. 

*Mrs. John W. Auchinloss, Washington st, 

*Mrs. Emily L. Jones, Wellington avenue. 

*Miss C. L. Wolfe, Pelham street. 

*John W. Bigelow, Washington street. 

*Philip Schuyler, Bellevue avenue. 

*W. W. Sherman, Victoria avenue. 

*W. S. Caldwell, (estate,) Kay street. 

*Daniel LeRoy, Bellevue avenue. 

*Stuyvesant LeRoy, Mann avenue. 

*Russell Forsyth, Ayrault street. 

Herman W. Bruen, Catharine Street. 

*Dr. J. D. Ogden, Rhode Island avenne. 

*Edward M. Neill, Kay street. 

Thomas feai'clay, Kay street. 

*Edward Meyer, Washington street. 

*John Whipple, near the cliff cottages. 

*James M. Drake, Red Cross avenue. 

*I. S. Homans, Gould Island, near Newport. 

*Mrs. W. H. Russell, Narragansett avenue. 

James M. Drake, Red Cross ave. 

*Miss Fanny Russell, Narragansett avenue. 

Edward S. Potter, Catharine street. 

*F. W. Rhinelander, Redwood street. 

Lewis M. Rutherford, Harrison avenue. 

*Fred AV. Stevens, Bellevue avenue. 

Mrs. R. Wood worth, Cliff avenue. 

*Philip Taggart, Broadway, 

*Prof. W. H. C. Bartlett, Broadway. 

*J. F. Pierson, Bellevue avenue. 

*S. W. Phenix, Hallidon Hill. 

*Philip Caswell, Jr., near one mile corner. 

George M. Tooker, cor. Ray and Touro sts. 

BOSTON. 

*Mrs. Gardner Brewer, Bellevue avenue and 

the cliffs. 
*Mrs. M. L. Bruen, Bellevue avenue. 
*Mrs. Richard Baker, Jr., Ledge road and 

the cliffs. 
W. W. Tucker, Bellevue avenue and the cliffs. 
*William C. Rives, Red Cross avenue. 
*Thomas F. Cushing, Bellevue avenue. 
*Robert M. Cushing, Ocean avenue. 
*Miss H. S. Crowningshield, Bellevue ave. 
George W. Wales, Yznagaave., and the cliffs. 
*Charles Lyman, Webster street. 
*Charles F. Lyman, LeRoy avenue. 
*Mrs. M. B. Sigourney, Bellevue avenue. 
Sidney Brooks, (estate) Bellevue avenue. 

D. S. Curtis, Redwood street. 
*Edwin D. Boit, Cottage Place. 

*Mrs. D. B. Greene, Narragansett avenue. 
*Mrs. Julia W. Howe, nearLawton's Valley. 
Mrs. D. W. Holmes, Narragansett avenue. 
*George H. Norman, Greenough place. 
*R. M. Staigg, (the artist,) Pelham street. 
*Robert M. Mason, (the late,) R. I. avenue. 
Joshua R. Bigelow, Washington street. 
MiSs Ida E. Deacon, Bellevue avenue. 
*Miss K. P. Wormley, Red Cross avenue. 
Samuel F. Pratt, Bellevue avenue. 
*Dr. E. L. Cunningham, Catharine street. 
*Thomas G. Appleton, Catharine street. 

*Jo]in Foster, Le Roy avenue. 



*Prof . Alexander Agassiz, Castle Hill. 
*Quincy A. Shaw, Castle Hill. 
*John S. Barstow, Portsmouth. 
*Prof. W. C. Simmons, Bay View ave. 
Col. John Winthrop, Corne street. 
*Frank W. Andrews, Maple avenue. 
S. H. Whitwell, Berkeley avenue. 
George F. Parkman, Bellevue avenue. 
*Edward S. Philbrick, Coddington Point. 
*John N. A. Griswold, Bellevue avenue. 
E. J. Anderson, "Redwood," near the Glen. 
*Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, Gibbs avenue. 
*Dr. H. R. Storer, Washington street andthe 

Harbor. 
*Hollis Hunnewell, Yznaga avenue and the 

cliffs. 

PHILADELPHIA. 

*Fairman Rogers, Ruggles ave. and the cliffs. 

*Harry Ingersoll, "Reef Point," on the cliffs, 

*Gen. George Cadwallader, (the late), Belle- 
vue avenue. 

*Mrs. John A. Brown, Bellevue avenue and 
Spring street. 

*Mrs. A. E. Winn, Second and Cherry streets. 

*R. B. Smith, Washington street. 

W. T. Richards, (the artist,) Gibbs avenue. 

*Charles J. Peterson, Bath road. 

*Edward T. Willing, Webster street. 

*Mrs. Joseph G. Johnson, Bellevue court. 

*Henry G. Morris, Washington street. 

*Wistar Morris, Washington street. 

*M. C. Cope, Washington street. 

*R. \a. Willing, Red Cross avenue. 

*Mrs. C. G. Perry, Greenough place. 

*Edward L. Brinley, Sunnyside place. 

*Wilson Eyi-e, Fir and Catharine streets. 

William H. Ashhurst, Bellevue avenue. 

*George F. Tyler, Bellevue court. 

*George Nugent, Coggeshall avenue. 

PROVIDENCE. 

*Mrs. John Cai'ter Brown, Bellevue avenue. 
*Robert H. Ives, (estate of,) Narragansett 

avenue and the cliffs. 
James T. Rhoades, (estate of,) Bellevue ave. 
*Earl P. Mason, (estate of,-) Bellevue avenue. 
♦Marshal Woods, Bellevue avenue. 
Jabez C. Knight, Bellevue av. 
George S. Fales, Paradise road. 
John R. Fales, Paradise road. 
* James E. Mauran, Rhode Island avenue. 
*Prof. William Gamniell, Narragansett ave. 

and the cliffs. 
*Henry J. Smith, Bellevue court. 
*Charles Potter, Rhode Island avenue. 
*Joseph J. Cooke, Bellevue avenue. 
*William B. Greene, Malbone avenue and 

Broadway. 
*Mrs. E. G. Hartshorn, Hallidon Hill. 
*Job Wilbour, Green End. 
*Henry J. Flint, Broadway. 
*Hon. Samuel G. Arnold, near Sachuest 

beach. 
*Dr. W. F. Channing, Tuckerman avenue.. 
Jacob Dunnell, Rough Point. 
Richard J. Arnold, Rhode Island avenue. 
*William Whitaker, Paradise Road. 



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*Joseph Barker, Swamp Road. 

Mrs. E. W. Howard, Kay and Bull streets. 

*William D. Hortou, Narragansett avenue. 

CHICAGO. 
*E. W. Willard, Beach View avenue. 
*Hugh Dickey, Harrison avenue. 
*Theo. W. Pliinney. Ruggles avenue. 

BALTIMORE. 
^Geo. Tiffany, Narragansett avenue. 
*Ex-Gov. Thomas Swann, Cliff avenue. 
John Murdock, Bellevue avenue. 
William C. Pennington, Clay and Dixon sts. 
Thomas Winans, (estate,) Castle Hill. 
*Mrs. Martha A. Robb, Bull street. 
*Mrs. E. P. Rhett, Canonicut Island. 
*Mrs. S. P. Ludlum. 

HARTFORD. 
Mrs. A. M. King, Ayrault street. 
*Charles K. Beach, Kay street. 
*Prof. John T. Huntington, Indian avenue. 
*Misses Woolsey, Rhode Island avenue. 

CAMBRIDGE, (Mass.) 
*Prof. JosiahP. Cooke, Jr., Gibbs avenue. 
*Prof. Wm. B. Rogers, Gibbs avenue. 
*Prof. H. S. Eustis, Canonicut Island. 



OTHER CITIES. 

*Dr. E. S. F. Arnold, Yonkers, N. Y. Car- 
roll avenue. 

*Capt. C. C. Churchill, U. S. A. Ayrault st. 

*Edwin C. Cushman, St. Louis, Rhode Island 
avenue and Catharine street. 

Clarence Rathbone, Albany, N. Y., Wash- 
ington street. 

Dr. James C. Palmer, U. S. N., BeUevue ave. 

*Murray Shipley, Cincinnati, Washington st. 

*Col. W. E. Prince, IT. S. A., Beach View ave. 

H. B. Scholes, Brooklyn, Bellevue avenue. 

*Rear Admiral A. L. Case, U. S. N., Catha 
rine street. 

*W. C. H. Sherman, Newburg, N. Y., Rug- 
gles avenue. 

Lt. F. H. Paine, U. S. N., John street. 

Gen. Innis N. Palmer, U. S. A., Spring st. 

*Gen. T. W. Sherman, U. S. A., (the late,) 
Greenough Place. 

Gen. Geo. W. CuUum, U. S. A. , near Bathing 
beach. 

*Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton, Cincinnati, Ochre 
Point and the cliffs. 

*Dr. S. C. Powell, New Haven, Ct., Cottage 
street. 

*Mrs. W. H. Swift, New Haven, Bellevue ave. 

Mrs. E. A. Taylor, Washington, Bellevue ave. 



Mrs. Thomas S. Gibbs, New York, (Wil- 
son's,) Beach street. 

Lieut. T. H. Barber, U. S. N., (Burns,) Haz- 
ard ave. 

James Stillman, New York, (Sharp's,) Halli- 
don Hill. 

Morton P. Henry, Philadelphia, (Richards',) 
Gibbs avenue. 

Meredith Howland, New York, (Torrance's,) 
Bellevue avenue. 

Sidney Coif ord Jones, New York, (Hunt's,) 
Ayrault street. 

W. W. Corcoran, Washington, No. 6. Cliff 
cottage. 

Mrs. M. E. Shaw, Boston, (Giberts,) Belle- 
vue avenue. 

Mrs. M. A. Bourne, Boston, (Whitwell's) 
Berkeley ave. 

Dr. J. J. Mason, New York, (King's,) Ay- 
rault street. 

A. A. Thayer, Philadelphia, Durfee's Tea 
House. 

George S. Bowdoin, New York, (Wyeth's,) 
Ayrault street. 

Mrs. DeLancy Kane, New York, (Goffe's,) 
Beach street. 

Walter Kane, New York, (Balch estate,) near 
Hanging Rocks. 



C. De Bildt, attache Swedish Legation, 
(Eyre's,) Pelham street. 

Mrs. Lindley, New York, (De Blois',) Cath- 
arine street. 

Cyrus W. Field, New York, (Benen's,) Cath- 
arine street. 

James L. McLane, New York, (Penning- 
ton's,) Clay street. 

Miss R. L. Kennedy, New York, (Mayer's,) 
Washington street. 

Miss Rhinelander, New York, (Whipple's,) 
Cliff avenue. 

John Whipple, New York, No. 8, Cliff cot- 
tage. 

J. W. Paine, Troy,N. Y., No. 5, Cliff cottage. 

E. T. Hatch, Boston, No. 3, Cliff cottage. 

A. D. Jessup, Philadelphia, (Brook estate,) 
Bellevue avenue. 

Baron Mayr, Austrian Minister, (Baker's,) 
High street. 

Dr. A. S. Oberly, U. S. N., (Babcock's,) De- 
Blois avenue. 

W. C. Rives, Jr., Boston, (Blackraan's,) Red 

L. 0. Watjen, New York, (Wright's,) Rhode 
Island avenue. 

W. W. Astor, New York, (Tucker's,) Belle- 
vue avenue. 



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W. B. Astoi', New York, (Kernochan's,) Nar- 

ragansett avenue. 
Dr. C. B. Porter, Boston, Conanicut Park. 
A. H. Woolsey, New York, (Rutherford's,) 

Harrison avenue. 
Edward Gray, Boston, (Tooker's,) Touroand 

Kay streets. 
Mrs. L. R. Cassidy, Albany, N. Y., (Davis',) 

Bellevue avenue. 
C. C. Baldwin, New York, (Edgar's,) Belle- 
vue avenue. 
James Coats, Providence, (Maitland estate,) 

Third street. 
R. V. McKim, Baltimore, (Murdock's,) 

Bellevue avenue. 
Prof. Charles W. Shields, Princeton, N. J., 

(Woodward's,) Cliff avenue. 
E. A. Post, New Yoi-k, (Jones',) Bellevue ave. 
J. B. Tennant, Pe*;ersburg, Va., (Hall's,) on 

the cliffs. 
Mrs. Beach Grant, New York, (Hall's,) on 

the cliffs. 
J. E. Hayden, Providence, Conanicut Park, 
Julian T. Davis, New York, (Barker's,) 

Paradise road. 
M. Fields, Chicago, (Livingston's,) near the 

beach. 
Edmund Deacon, Boston, (Johnson's,) Belle- 
vue court. 
Mrs. Matilda Lieber, New York, (Terrill's,) 

Kay street. 
R. T. Wilson, New York, (Travers',) Narra- 

gansett avenue. 
W. F. Weld, Philadelphia, (Hartshorn's,) 

Hallidon Hill. 
Mrs. C. AV. Pease, New York, (Fish's,) East 

Bowery street. 
Mrs. C. L. Spencer, New York, (Lawrence's) 

Mill street. 
James Harriman, New York, (Holmes',) 

Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. George Ticknor, Boston, (Hall's,) An- 

nandale road. 
Mrs. G. L. Beekmau, New York, (King's,) 

Catharine Street. 
Nathaniel Thayer, Jr., Boston, (Wales,) 

Yznaga avenue. 
L. L. Lorillard, New York, (Anthony's,) 

Bellevue avenue. 
George Collins, Providence, (Anderson's,) 

Cottage sti-eet. 
Wesley Harper, New York, (Parkinson's,) 

Bellevue avenue. 
T. A. Havemeyer, New York, (Andrews,) 

Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. ElyGoddard, New York, (Deckham's,) 

Bellevue avenue, 
W. H. Lewis, New York, (Train's,) Bellevue 

avenue. 
Mrs. M. S. MacTavish, Baltimore, (Wea- 
ver's,) Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. S. E. Milnor, New York, (DeBlois',) 

Catharine sti-eet. 
D. P. Cotton, Wolfboro', N. H., (Pell's,) 

Greenough Place. 
Sidney Webster, New York, (Howard's,) 

Kay street. 



Augustus Schell, New York, (Deacon's,) 

Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. L. S. Clymer, New York, (Butler's,) 

Everett Place. 
Atherton Blight, Philadelphia, (Sigom- 

uey's,) Bellevue avenue. 
Henry B. Auchincloss, New York, (Rath- 
bone's,) Washington street. 
J. S. Brownson, Elizabeth, N. J., (Tatum's,) 

Washington street. 
James Davis, Boston, (Ogden's,) Narragan- 

sett avenue. 
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia, No. 4, 

Cliff Cottage. 
William Oothout, New York, (Knight's,) 

Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. H. W. Ogstin, New York, (Curtis',) 

Redwood street. 
Mr. Autrey, the French minister, (Russell's,) 

Narragansett avenue. 
Thomas Mott. Philadelphia, (Gibert's), Bel- 
levue avenue. 
Col. Jonathan Amory, Boston, (Francis',) 

Everett Place. 
James Gordon Bennett, New York, (Stev- 
en's,) Berkley avenue. 
R. L. Cutting, New York, Livingstones on 

the cliffs. 
Mrs. Mary Porter, New Orleans, (Lewis',) 

Brinley street. 
Mrs. J. P. Crosby, New York, (Littlefield's,) 

Pelham street. 
Mrs. M. B. Crosby, (Wilbor's,) Pelham st. 
Mrs. F. E. Fairchild, Morristowu, N. J., 

(Ives's,) Brinley street. 
Ogdeh Goelet, New York, (Traver's,) Narra- 

ganset avenue. 
Dr. William Grosvenor, Providence, (Ash- 
hurst's,) Bellevue avenue. 
Mrs. Judson, New York, (Field's,) Catharine 

street. 
Mrs. Charles McKim, New York, (Bigelow's,) 

Washington street. 
L. P. Norris, New York, (Field's,) Ocean 

avenue. 
R. M. Olyphant, New York, (Champliu's,) 

Conanicut Island. 
Dr. Beverly Robinson, New York, (Carey's,) 

Bath road. 
Lispenard Stewart, New York, (Bradford 

estate,) Catharine street. 
W. A. Street, New York. Hall's Cliff House. 
Admiral Worden, U. S. N., (Finch's,) High 

street. 
Dr. Bell, New York, (Drake's,) Red Cross 

avenue. 
Robex-t Lenox, New York, (Hatch's,) Kay st. 
Rose Durfee, New York, (Muenchiuger's,) 

Bellevue avenue. 
Henry Sampson, New York, No. 1 Cliff Cot- 
tage. 
Charles Wheeler, Philadelphia, No. 7 Cliff 

Cottage. 
Ex-Gov. Hubbard, Conneticut, (Dunnell's), 

Rough Point. 
Louis Heck, Jr., New York, No. 2 Cliff Cot- 
tao-e. 



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RENDEZVOUSING ON THE BAY. 



BROOKLYN YACHT CLUB. 

Lestek Wallack, Commodore. Charles H. Hall, Vice-Commodore. G. F. Randolph, R. 
Commodore. Hy. W. Turner, President. William T. Lee, Secretary and Treasurer. George G. 
Dunning, Asst. Secretar]/. John M. Sawyer, Measurer. 



SCHOONERS. 



Alarm 

Clio 

Columbia 

Dreadnaught. 

Estelle 

Idler 

Leatha 

Madeline 

Comet 

Mystic 

Rambler.. . . . 
Sea Witcb.... 

C;iren 

Vesta 

Wanderer.... 

Tempest 

Vision 



George L. Kiiigsland. 

JohnR Piatt. 

Lester Wallack. 

Charles J. Osboru. 

J. D. Smith. 

S. J. Colgate. 

A. Colbiirn. 

J. S. Dickerson. 

William H. Langley. 

C. H. Hall. 

W. H. Thomas. 

Frank S. Stott, 

C. T. Morrogh, M. D. 

S. M. Mills. 

J. Stillman. 

R. S. Elliott. 

G. I. Stevens. 



SLOOPS. 



Annie Joseph Elsworth. 

Ada A. V. Bliven. 

Aquata John M. Dagnal. 



Arrow R. R. Winans. 

Belle iThomas F. Morris. 

Fanny C. H. Mallory. 

Gracie J. R. Waller. 

Gussie 'J. D. Fowler. 

Wave E. B. Underbill. 

Mattie Henry C. Place. 

Kate George F. Randolph. 

Lizzie L J. G. Johnson, M. D. 

Schemer C. Smith Lee. 

Snsie S E. P. Miller. 

Win. T Lee 'Charles A. Cheever. 

Niantic jRichard H. Huntley. 

America John J. Tredwell. 

Alice jHenry J. Steere. 

Monroe G. A. Beling. 

Mystery C. A. Cbesebrougb. 

STEAMERS. . 

N. Amsterdam C. G. Gunther. 

Fidget A. R. Culver. 

Tourist C. A. Cbesebrougb. 

Virginia F. Griswold Heron. 

Minnie ;F. S. Massey. 



WARWICK YACHT CLUB. 

Andrew Robeson, Commodore. Fred. P. Sands, Vice-Commodore. John K. H. Nightingale, 
R. Commodore. Howard L. Clarke, Secretary. W. C. Rhodes, Ti-easurer. James N. Hart, 
Measurer. 



NAME. 


owner. 


NAME. 


OWNER. 




H. L. Aldrich. 
Daniel H. Barstow. 
John R. Fell. 
Mablon Sands. 

Henry J. Steere. 
Henrv G. Russell. 
F. P. Sands. 
H. L. Clarke. 

E. F. Lucas. 
S.C. Powell. 

F. P. Sands. 




A Robeson. 


SCHOONERS. 




H C Allen. 


Alice 

Angie 

Cornelia 

Viking 

SLOOPS. 


CAT-BOATS. 
Dolly 


C. Rathbone. 


Edith 


A. L I*Iasou 


Halcyon 

Meta 


R. G. Hazard, 2d. 
J A. Renwick. 


Alice 

Elaine 


MoUv 


Horace Binuey. 
Thomas Duunell. 






J. W. Huntington. 


Hildegarde 

Lackawana 




W. V. Olvpbant. 


Warwick 


■T. K. H. Nishtingale. 
F H. Brown. 


Lizzie L 







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NARRAGANSETT SEA AND SHORE. 



NEW YORK YACHT CLUB. 

S. Nicholson, Kane, Commodore. W. H. Thomas, T7ce-C'ommo(/o)-e. J. R. Waller R Com. 
modore. Charles A. Minton^ Secretary. Sheppard Homans, Treasurer. A Car4 Smith 
Measurer. G. S. Winston, M. D., Fleet Surgeon. omith, 



SCHOONERS. 



4-^arm George L. Kingsland. 

Ambassadress j William Astor. 

Clio JohnR. Pratt. 

Clytie A. It. Cook. 

Clytie. W. L. Brooks. 

Clochette C. W. Galloupe. 

Columbia Lester Wallack. 

Comet 1 W. H. Langley. 

Cornelia ! Jno. R. Fell. 

Dauntless j. R. Walker. 

Dreadnaught C. J. Osborn. 

Edith Henrv S. Hovey. 

Ermengarde G. Peabody Russell. 

Estelle J. D. Smith. 

g.va- |E. Burd Grubb. 

Firefly (yawl) ! A. B. Cook. 

Fleetwmg George A. Osgood. 

Foam T. D. Boardman. 

Intrepid Lloyd Phenix. 

Loujsa N. P. Rogers. 

Madeline j. s. Dickerson. 

Nereid Anson P. Stokes. 

Nettie F. P. Osborn. 

palmer r. Stuy vesant. 

Peerless J. r. Maxwell. 

Phantom Henry S. Hovey. 

Rambler W. H. Thomas. 

Resolute A. S. Hatch. 

Restless s. Nicholson Kane. 

Sappho iPrince Sciarra. 

Tidal Wave 'Daniel Cook. 

yesta s. M. Mills. 

Viking F. H. Stott. 

Wanderer James Stillman. 

;^lagic Francis M. Weld. 

Meta Franklin Dexter. 



Alice 

[Ariadne 

jBreeze 

Coming 

iDudley 

Elaine 

Eugenie 

Fanny 

] Fiona, Cutter 

Gracie 

jKriemhilda ) 

I Cutter ) 

Recreation 

Regina 

Viudex, Cutter 

Vision 

Vixen 

Volante, ) 

Cutter ( 

Windward 

Glance 

Muriel, Cutter 

Mischief 

North Star 

Psyche 

Niantic 

STEAMERS. 



T. G. Appleton. 
Theo. A. Strange. 
H. P. Kingsland. 
G. G. Haven. 
J. W. Russell. 
H. G. Russell. 
H. Roussel. 
C. H. Mallory. 

E. B. Boutcher. 
J. R. Waller. 

Count Batthyany. 
Henry E. Sturges. 
W. A. W. Stewart. 
Robert Center. 
J. J. Alexandre. 

F. C. Lawrence. 
T. Hitchcock, Jr. 
F. B. Hitchcock. 
H. L. Willoughby. 
E. H. Ferris. 
Charles Stillman. 
Joseph R. Bush. 
Charles A. Stevenson, 
Ed. M. Brown. 

R. H. Huntley. 



r 



SLOOPS. 



Active F. W. J. Hurst. 

Alert Henry Vail. 



E. B. Boutcher. 



Blunderbuss 

Faustine 

Fauvette 

Gitana 

Ibis 

Ideal 

Lady of the Lake . 

Lurline 

Minnehaha 

N. Amsterdam... , 

Skylark 

Vedette 

Rival 

Jeannette 

Shaugraun. 



Count IBatthyana. 
G. Peabody Russell. 
E. Perignon. 
Baron Rothschild. 
John A. Brown. Jr. 
T. A. Havemeyer. 
Sir Robert Peel, Bart. 
Pierre Lorillard. 
H. J. Barbey. 
C. G. Gunther. 
Ed. S. Jaffray. 
Phillips Phoenix. 
Jacob Lorillard. 
J. G. Bennett. 
Dion Boucicault. 



*0f same name but different vessel, from " Fiona" Cutter, but same owner. 



PROVIDENCE YACHT CLUB. 

Benjamin Davis, Commodore. Edwin N. Pettis, Vice-Commodore. Benjamin Stillwell., 
President. E. F. Dustin, Secretary and Treasurer. Arthur M. Black. Measurer. 



NAME. 


owner. 


NAME. 


OWNER. 


SCHOONERS. 

Juniata 

Carrie 

SLOOPS. 

Alice 


Dr. H. S. Flint. 
W. P. Anthony. 

Henry J. Steere. 
Richard Davis. 
Walter M. Greene. 
Addison H. White. 
Edward J. Anderson. 
Robert W. Jenks. 
Charles F. Handy. 
N. G. Herreshoff. 


CAT-RIGGED 
YACHTS. 

Wanderer 


Benjamin Davis. 
John C. Rhodes. 


Lizzie 

Country Boy 

Magic 

CATAMARANS. 

Tarantella 


Simon Cameron. 
E N Pettis 


Lucille 

Haidee 

Genevieve 

Hope 


Benjamin Davis. 
N. G. Herreshoff. 


Starlight 

Lottie 

Riviera 


Girofle Girofla 


Jefferson Borden, Jr. 



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THE 




Of all physiological processes none is more interesting than the Development of 
the Teeth. 

The First, or Temporary Set, consists of twenty teeth. 

The number in the Second or Permanent Set is increased to thirty-two. Therefore 
a larger space will be required for the twelve additional teeth, and great care should 
be exercised at the time of their eruption that they appear in a uniform manner. 

Between the fifth and sixth years the first Permanent Molars, four in number, 
make their appearance, to give warning that others of a like permanent character are 
soon to be their companions. Parents, often supposing these teeth to belong to the 
First Set, allow them to decay without knowing that the child is undergoing an irre- 
parable loss. 

Let it also be understood that though the teeth are fully formed before emerg- 
ing through the gums, the enamel does not acquire its proper hardness for months, 
and sometimes years ; therefore decay makes sharper inroads in youth ^ than ever 
after. If they could be preserved through this critical period, what a saving of pain 
and health to the patient, and 

BEAUTY TO THE COUNTENANCE, 



" If then the teeth designed for constant use, 
Decay and ache, 'tis only from abuse. 
And lo ! triumphant art can well ensure , 
At least a remedy, if not a cure." 




220 Westminster Street, 

Providence, R. I. 



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ontiiieiitkl Stekrqboat Co. 




1879. 



1879. 



Providence, Rocky Point, Conanicut Park and Newport. 

STEAMERS 

— On A-zxca. -A-ftor T7viejsca.^y, Jxiiy 1st, — 

(Sundays excepted), boats leave Trovideuce for Rocky Point at 8.45, 9.30, 10.50 and 11.30 a. in., and 2.00, 4.00 and 5.00 
p. m. Returning, leave Rocky Point at 8.00 and 10.15 a. m., and 12.15, 12.30, 2.30, 5.15 and 5.30 p. m. Leave Provi- 
dence for Newport at 8.45 and 10..50 a. in., 2.00 and 5.00 p. m. Leave Newport for Rocky Point and Providence at 
7.00 and 11.30 a. m., 1.30 and 4.30 p. m. 

EXCUBSIOX TICKETS— Providence to Rocky Point and return, 40 cents : children under 12 years of age, 
25 cents. Providence to Conanicut Park and return, 60 cents. Providence to Newport and return, 75 cents ; children 
under 12 years of age, 50 cents. Newport to Rocky Point and return, 40 cents ; children under 12 years of age, 25 cents. 

REGUIiAR FARES — Providence to Newport .50 cents ; children under 12 years of age, 25 cents. Providence 
to Conanicut Park, 40 cents. No ale or into.xicating drinks of any kind sold on the boats of thrs company. 

DAILY EXCUBSIOyS TO SMOBE PLACES, 

steamers City of Newport and Whatcheer leave Providence for Field's Point, Ocean Cottage, Silver Spring, River- 
side and Bullock's Point at 9.00, 10.00 and 11.00 a. m., 12.00 m., 1.00. 2.00. 3.00, 4.00, 6.05 and 6.30 p. m. Returning, 
leave Bullock's Point for Providence and intermediate landings at 6.00, 10.00 and 11.00 a. m., 12.00 m., 1.00, 2.00. 3.00, 
4.00, 5.00 and 6.40 p. m. SPECIAL. TRIP— Le.ave Providence (Sundays excepted) for Riverside and interme- 
di ate la ndings at 7.00 a. m. Returning, leave Riverside for Providence and intermediate landings at 7.50 a. m. 

I^T'Special arrangements for Sabbath Schools, Societies, Military Organizations, Moonlight Excursions, etc., can be 
made upon application to 

F. JIAIBAX. Mauafjer. 




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HOTEL DORRANCE, 

Cor. Westniinstev and Dorrance Streets, 2 3Iiniites' Walk from the I>epot. 

On European Plan. 



L. M. THAYER, Proprietor. 



♦ PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



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WORCESTEB, COy^CORD. :MANCHESTER, JPEY3IOUTII, 
LITTLETOX, BETHLEHEM, EABYAXS, MON- 
TREAL, QUEBEC AND ALL BOLNTS 
NOBTH AN I) WEST. 

White Mountaim Mxpp&m Traim 

With Parlor Car attached leaves Providence at 6.10 A. M. 



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^SIX TRAINS DAILY BETWEEN PROVIDENCE AND WORCESTER. 



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to all Points North, South, East or West. 
WM. M. DURFEE, Gen. Pass. Agt. W. E. CHAMBERLAIN, Superintendent. 



BROWN BROS. & CO., 



Manulacturers of SHAW'S 




U. S. STANDARD 



Ring Travelers 



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Spinning Rings, Belt Hooks, and Factory Wire Goods. 

Supplies 



Dealers in 



Cottoxx ct^xxd. ^Wool^xx IVExlls. 

Butler Exchange, No. 37 Exchange Place, 

^- ^T^^AffN^Ii^owK. PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

CHARLES H. CHILD. 



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PARLOR @ BEDROOM SETS, 

CARPETS, WOOD AMD WILLOW WARE, TIJ^WARE, CROCKERY, 
LAMPS, FEATHERS, REFRIGERATORS, S^c, §"0., 

.A.T 



ARNOLD, BUKER & MILLER'S 

254 & 256 HIGH STREET, COR. SUMMER. 



P, S. — Also a large Bankrupt Stock of Coir Matting, suitable for churches and stores, 

at a very low figure. 

""^"^ DEALERS IN 

DRUGS, 

CHEMICALS, DYEWOODS, PAINTS, 

— oils- 
Varnishes, Window Glass, &c. 

AGENTS FOR 

JEWETT & SONS' WHITE LEAD | OIL. 



No, 10 Exchange Place, 



Providence, R, L 



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Nay ATT Hotel. 




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THIS PLEASANT AND POPULAR 

AT Nayatt Point, on Narragansett Bay, 



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Xafpd for its beautiful location, excellent table and genial society, is readied by way of the 
Noted foi J,™™\^9«j; ^^ ^ j3^.,t^l Railroad, or by a drive of nine miles over 
rioviueuoe, excellent road from Providence. 



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ROCKY POINT, 




SDES-A-SOIO" or' la-FO. 



This elegant summer resort, the finest place of the kind in this part of the country, 
opened to the public July 1st, has now without doubt more attractions for pleasure parties 
Sunday Schools, Societies, etc., or for furnishing a day of enjoyment to a private individual 
or small party, than any other place in Rhode Island, or, in fact, in New England. Having been 
open for so many years, its proprietors have found just what the public want, and have 
added to its beauties and attractions from year to year, until now they have arrived as near 
perfection as is possible. Everything to delight children and please those of a maturer age 
can be found at the Point this season-swings, flying horses, monkey cage, open air enter- 
tainment, bowling-alley, dance hall, and many other things that need to be seen to be ap- 
preciated. Being situated as it is, there is always a cool breeze, and enjoyment can be 
found A clam dinner is furnished daily, and a fine restaurant is open to serve those who 
do not care for the juicy bivalve with ''fixins'." The hotel on the premises ^b fine and 
commodious, and is open for the reception of guests after June 18th. Transient rates, $2.-50 
per day. Permanent guests $8 to $15 per week. For full particulars address 

E. H. KENT, Hocky I^oint, AVarwick, .R. I. 



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CSd^KIVERSIDE, R. I.^3d 

Splendid Bathing, Ice Cream and Confectionery. Soda drawn from Tuft's Arctic Fountain, 
Pure Fruit Syrups. Beautiful Cottages, overlooking the Bay, and command- 
ing a fine view of the grounds, to be leased, all furnished by 

GEORGE W. PATON, Proprietor. 



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At Roger Williams Park, 

Which has been pronounced one of the coolest and most delightful places of resort in 
Rhode Island, is now open for the Season of 1879. 

Also, a choice line of Imported and Domestic Cigars kept constantly on hand. Sabbath 

Schools, Picnics, and Societies, can make arrangements with the proprietor for the 

furnishing of Ice Cream, Cake, &c., at the shortest notice and on the 

most liberal terms. 

J. A. KNOWLES, Proprietor. 




T. J. FALES, 



Sail Maker. 



MANUFACTURER OF 



French i^ Mt&r&J$ MmMmm AwmmgM^ 

Trunk and Wagon Covers. Tents made to order. Entire 
satisfaction guaranteed, in every case. 

BOAT # YACHT SAILS A SPECIALTY. 



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-No. 2 Planet Street,- 

Corner South Water Street, PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



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Where may be found BATHING CLOTHES of all kinds for Ladies, Gents and Children. 
Hats, Caps, Shoes, Tights, Towels, &c. 

Also a eood assortment of REFRESHMENTS, Cakes, Candies, Fruit, Sandwiches. Cool 
Also, agooci ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ COFFEE, &c., &c. 

WALTER SHERMAN, PROPRIETOR. 



BELLI ¥I1W M0US1 
Block Island, R. I. 



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This delightful house.has one of 
the finest locations on the Island, 
giving the most commanding and 
pleasing views. Arranged for the 
accommodation of sixty guests. 
Easily accessible to the landing and 
the bathing beach, and also to the 
boating and fishing 'grounds. It is 
well lighted and ventilated. The 
rooms are cosy and particularly 
adapted to the convenience of 
guests. Its immediate surround- 
ings afford every comfort and lux- 
ury. From its superior location it 
is completely retired from bustle 
and confusion, making it one of the 
most famous Hotels on the Island. 
The gentlemanly proprietor is well known as a caterer to the public, and his table will always be sup- 
plied with the delicacies of the season to add lo its attractions. Excursionists will do well to visit 

Terms will be made to correspond with the times, at unusually low rates. 

For further information address the proprietor, ^^^ ^ ^^ 

Re-opens June 1, 1879. J_^^ g^ M.OTT. 



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Wa tch Hill. R. I. 

This magnificent Hotel, with facilities for the accommodation of three hundred guests, 

will re-open 

JUNE 20TH, FOR THE SEASON OF 1879. 

It is surrounded by a Piazza 500 feet long and 12 feet wide, and is illuminated through- 
out with gas. Each room is sujiplied with hot and cold water. Billiard Kooms and Bowling 
Alleys are among other attractions. A fine Bathing Beach lies in close proximity, con- 
nected with the hotel by concrete walks. The Hill itself is a series of Bluffs, forming the 
western boundary of Narraganset Beach, which is about twenty miles westward from Point 
Judith, and broken only by small inlets. The Beach is unsurpassed as a promenade; and 
the advance and receding of the boisterous waves from tlie mighty deep on the calm level 
sand, when viewed from the Bluffs, presents a scene which one never tires of gazing at. 
Southwesters here are of frequent occurrence. This is also a favorite resort for fishermen, 
tautog, bass, horse mackerel and cod being most sought for. To be successful in catching 
these fish requires great skill and long practice, and the sport affords much pleasure and 
excitement to the summer visitor. 

Watch Hill is of easy access from Boston and New York, being within a few hours ride 
from either. 

This hotel directly faces the open sea. The rooms are large and airy, commanding a 
fine view of the broad Atlantic, which stretches out as far as the eye can reach, to where 
the sea and sky seem to meet. In its construction the proprietors had the interest and 
pleasure of its patrons at heart. Every department will be under their immediate supervi- 
sion, which is a sufficient guarantee for the excellence of the cuisine, standing second to 
none in the country, as the public have ever been ready to testify. 

For terms, &c., address, 

D. F. LARKIN & CO, Watch Hill P. O., R. I. 

THE BON-TON GAME. 

This beautiful game is well adapted 
for Hotels, Clubs, Watering Places, 
Societies, Parlor and Nursery. Tables 
are made of all sizes for children or 
adults. On the smallest size, 10x30, there 
can be 18, and on the largest size, 36x120 
inches, So different games played. The 
largest size has a rubber cushion. The 
pins are polygonal, each side numbered 
in cut. The large tables are made portable— easily set up. A nice game of Billiards can be played. 

Do not fail to see the Bou-Ton before purchasing any other game. 
Rules of the game. State. County and City Rights for sale. The Medal of Excellence awarded 
at the American Institute Fair, New York, 1878. 

Patented Nov. 13, 1877, by John Browx, 105 North Main Street, Providence, R. I. 




as shown 
Send for 



NARRAGANSETT HOTEL, 



^VlT^tols. XXUl, 



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This well-known and commodious Hotel stands to-day unrivalled on the hotel list. It 
is within five minutes' walk of the Bathing Beach, is in the immediate vicinity of the Steam- 
boat landing, and connects directly with the Shore Line Train for New York. Commanding 
a fine view of the ocean as it does, its invigorating qualities are surpassed by none. A 
beautiful Yacht is connected with this house for fishing and sailing. Excursionists will do 
well to visit this resort. Address, 

N. E. NASH, Proprietor, 

WATCH HILL, P. O., R. L 



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WATCH HILL, R. I. 

This old and popular seaside House will re-open June £0 for the season of 1879. The 
house has been thoroughly renovated, and has accommodations for one hundred and fifty 
guests. Its commanding eminence renders its location more desirable than any other in 
the place. It owes its popularity to the magnificent ocean view obtained from the bluffs 
on which it stands. In early times this bluff was used for the lookout for whales, and 
still earlier, it is said, that the Indians maintained a watch to guard against the fierce and 
warlike Montauks, who would occasionally make predatory excursions to the mainland in 
their canoes. The beach view presents a scene not readily forgotten. The surf here is 
always moderate. On the extremity of this point is a light-house, and the surf rushes 
over the bovilders in the wildest manner, affording a rather pleasing variety of scene. 
The air is extremely clear and salubrious, and has proven beneficial to children of delicate 
constitution. The rooms are large, en suite, completely, richly and tastefully furnished, 
and nothing is left undone that could please the most exacting guest. The cuisine of 
the house is equal to any in the country. The grounds around the house are picturesque, 
the walks charming, the drives unsurpassed, and the river convenient for boating and yacht- 
ing. For terms, etc., address 

HALE & WALLACE, WATCH HILL. R. L 



OCEAN HOUSE, 



Watch Hill, R. I. 



This hotel, long known as the favorite summer resort, re-opens June 25 for the season 
of 1879. It is situated on the highest point of land at Watch Hill, and commands one of 
the finest views, embracing Montauk, Block Island, Fisher's Island, Stonington Point, and 
the ocean for a distance of twenty-five miles. Its location is remarkably healthful, and 
guests are not annoyed with sea-sickness. The house is so constructed that all the rooms 
command a delightful view of the bay and the entire beach, and offers attractions for quiet- 
ness and retirement which none others here afford. Boating and bathing are unsurpassed. 
The proprietor has had thirty years' experience as a public caterer, and will be unsparing 
for the future in his efforts to merit the full approbation of its numerous patrons. 

For terms, etc., address 

GEORGE E. NASH, PROPRIETOR, 

WATCH HILL P. O., R. L 
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EST-V: 



243 DYER STREET, 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



-MANUFACTTTRERS OF- 



p EI^^Fg GMMPIQN H^^NEgg 0m BL^GKINg, 

PERRVS HARNESS OIL SOAP, 
j^nsriD sT^A^i^ .A.2^i_.E OIL. 

AND DEALERS IN 

PUEE MEAT^-FOQT AMD LUB EI GATING OlSa 





—ALSO DEALERS IN- 

A Full Line of- 



JEWELERS' TISSUE PAPER, SEALING WAX, CHAIN TAGS, &c., 
Constantly on Hand. 

91 WESTMINSTER STKEET, Brownell Block, PROYIDESCE, F. I. 

^. DoX'T ^mi^ TO vi^iT — 

Sof(^oX, 

87 WESTMINSTER ST., PROVIDENCE, R. I. ' 



DANCING ACADEMY, 

At 25 WESTMINSTER STREET, 

"Will Re-open' for the Season Saturday, Oct. 4th, 

1879, at 3 o'clock P. M. 

Evening Class on Tuesday, Oct. 7th, at 8 o'clock P. M. 



THOS. T. DEMING, 

FIRST-CLASS TAILORING 

— AND— 

tiADIES' OVERGARMEIVTS 

AT REASONABLE RATES. 

BUTLER EXCHANGE, PROVIDENCE, R. I., 

Room 2, Fourth Floor. 



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JULIUS JORDAN, 

Butler Exchange, Providence. 



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FALL TERM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 1st. TERMS - $40 PER QUARTER, OF TWENTY .20i LESSONS. 
PAYABLE ONE-HALF QUARTER IN ADVANCE. 



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iXOm HOUSE, 

Westerly, R. I. 

^ SEASON OF 1879. 

^m The above House is one of the 
==s largest and tlnest Hotels in all New 
_^ Eng-lancl for accessibility, comfort 
■^^ and convenience. The Sleeping 
■ "^ Aiiartments are large and airy. 

The famous Sea-side Resort, 
Watch Hill, is located six miles 
- >()Uth, accessible by steamboat or 
piivate conveyance to and from 
1= the Dixon House, with all facili- 
ties for returning to either dinner 
oi tea, or both. Terms i-easonable 
and all applications promptly re- 
^pcmded to. 

THE KOUTE.— The DixON 
House, Westerly, is reached from 
\ ( w Yorlc, Providence and Boston, 
I \ the Shore Line Railroad, or 
1 1 1 )m New York by the Stonington 
I me. "Westerly is located east from 
■>tonington 5 miles, and west from 
I'lovidence 44 miles. Public con- 
\ ( yance always found at the Sta- 
tion on arrival of trains. 
WM. H. CHAPMAN, Proprietor. 



Geo. L. Olaflin & Co., 



IHOLESAIE DBIGIHS, 



Nos. 62, 64 and 66 South Main Street, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

RETAIL DEPARTMENT, 56 and 58 South Main Street. 




Awning 



Sail Maker 






ALSO, FLAGS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 



TElsTTS TO HIK/E. 

Sails, Awnings (Store and Residence), Tents, Covers, &c., 
made, repaired, and put up. 

OLD CANVAS ALWAYS ON HAND. 

Store, 5 Dorrance St. Wharf, Providence, R.I. 



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H. L. PIERCE MF'G CO., 

SOLE MAKERS OF PIERCE'S LIGHT RUNNING PATENT ELLIPTIC 

RING TRAVELLERS, 



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Fig. 2.— Position ol old atjle Tia\cller 
while runniui:. 



Probably the smallest, and apparently the most insignificant part of cotton machinery is the ring 
traveller, yet small as it is, it is all important in rins: spinning, and as much, if not more, depends upon 
its prouer construction and adaptation as upon any other part of the machinery. It is a delicate, sensi- 
tive, little- instrument, which, if it fails to do its work, the whole machine must stop. Insignificant as it 
ai)peai-s, it is probablv the occasion of more annoyance to the operator and loss to the manufacturer than 
the spindle itself, or any other part of the spinning machinery, for if the thread breaks, the spindle is 
not only producing yarn, but it is wasting cotton just as fast as it would be using it if the spindle was in 
productive operation. 




PIERCE'S PftTENl PROCESS EOfi REIEillG OLD RINGS, 




New Top for Old Ring. Old Ring Prepared to Receive Old Ring Refitted with New 

New Top. Top, showing Section of same. 



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Nayatt Brick Company, 

Manufacturers of |— ^ |— ^ ( bC 

PROVIDENCE BUILDERS' ASSOCIATION, 

Dealers in all kinds of Masons' Materials. 

N. F. POTTER, - - - Treasurer. 



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Pressed, Faced, and Common Brick, Rhode Island, Eastern, and Connecticut Lime, American 

and English Cements, Best Salt Glazed Drain Pipe, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, 

Fire Mortar and Kaolin, North River Blue Stone, &c. Agents 

for Peirce, Lawrence & Co.'s Canaan Lime, and 

Mechanics Exchange, opposite Post Office. 

No. 158 DYER STREET, 2, 4 & 6 POINT STREET. 





MANUFACTURED BY 

H. A. FREEMAN, Ageut, 

Office and Salesroom : 

160, 162 aid 164 EBDY STREET, 

PROVIDE^'CE, R. 1. 

Tbis is the most complete and economical Fur- 
nace sold, having the most radiating suface (all 
exposed to the direct heat of the fire) of any Fur- 
nace made. It has 

Shaking and Dumping Grate, 
Anti-Clinker or Slicing Grate, 

AND 

Sub Ash Pit, with Sifting Grate. 

The doors are closely fitted, and is manufac- 
tured in a flrst-class and thorough manner 
throughout, making it the most iioiverfnl and 
desirable Heater known. 

Those in want of a Furnace will do well to call 
and examine it before purchasing elsewhere. 



MANUFACTURERS' AGENT, AND DEALER IN 

^6^ICUIiTUF(^Ii IMPLEMENT? I M?lCpiNE^Y, 

LAWN MOWERS AND ORNAMENTS. 

r^=Descriptive Circulars Free, by mail. 



THE PROVIDENCE 

STEHMCIiePEI BATING ESMISHMENT, 

117 Summer Street, near Pine. 

Ordei'S hy Mail or Teleiihone will receive prompt 
attention. T. A. EASTON, Proprietor. 



LADIES' AND GENTS' 

TEMPERANCE DININ& ROOMS, 

5 &/ 7 Mathewson St.. Providence, R. I. 

Good, Wholesome Food, a good variety of Meats 

and Pasti-v 
FURNISHED AT THE LO"V\rEST LIVING PRICES. 



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Florence Oil Stoves. 








FOR COOKING. FOR HEATING. 

FOR MANUFACTURERS' USE, 

SAFE, ODORLESS AMD DURABLE- 

Base of Cast Iron, Eiiaiiifleil Inside and Outside. 
Perfect Combustion attained without Smell or Gas. 
'I'lu' Cook .Stove exeeutesjiil kinds of cooking 
ci'lection. 

The Heater has no equal for bed-rooms, bath- 
lOKius, offices, &c. 

The "Florence" is sold witb the guarantee that 
it sliall give entire satisfaction or money refunded. 

My improved oil stove furniture is made of the 
heaviest tin, with copper bottom kettles. 

Please send for circular or call and examine the 
Stoves at 

g? and f§ AUQABE, FEOYJBENQE. 

J. LYMAN GRISWOLD, GEN'L AGE NT FOR RHODE ISLAND. 

W. A. RICHARDS, 

3 ^cyboAAct .^trcet, providence, g, |., 

Makes a specialt.vof artistic i-ejiroduction by Wood Engraving 
of Jewelry, Buildings, Fine Machinery and Book Illustrations. 
For illustrations of such manufactures the wood cut secures 
a superior beauty and finish, and the electrotypes which can 
be produced from it, work handsomely and last longer than 
any other process. 

Posters, Portraits, Characters, 
Cuts, etc. 

Having had long experience in the business in New York and 
Boston, and made Color Work a specialty, can execute all orders quickly, satisfactorily and at 
reasonable rates. . , . , , , , 

Orders by Mail promptly attended to. 




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OHN F, DALY, 




No. 110 INDIA STREET, PROVIDENCE, R I. 

Designer and Builder of the Rustic Fence at the Broad Street entrance to Roger 

"Williams Park, Providence. 

My designs are new. The material being durable, and workmanship perfect, 

I will warrant satisfaction. 

Summer Houses, Lawn Ornaments, Hanging Baskets, &c. 



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212 THA3IJES, cor. FRAJSKLIN STRBET, 

iJg^Connected with the Telephone Exchange. NEWPORT, R. 



JAMES F. HARDEN, ''-'T-- STOVES, RANGES, FURNACES, 

Copper, Tin ami Sheet Iron Ware, and Dealer in Fine China, Glass, Crockery, Wooden Ware, Brushes, Brooms, Mats, Refrigera- 
tors, and House Furnishing Goods generally. 

3 Cottrell Bloclc, Thames Street, (First Block South of Post Office,) Newport, R. I. 
Ifewport & Wickford Mailroad and Steam boat Coi w pany , 

"^ROM~NEA^Y75RirTOnNE\VP6RT\ FROM NEWPORT TO NEW YORK. 



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P. M. Returning, leave Wickford 



ANDREW T. WOOD, 

f S^ Manufacturer and Dealer in 

Say sSBja JaTflgRPJ^V %)} ^ ® yW ^S'ist^^ffiLj^ 
Of all kinds. 

Repairing in all its branches promptly attended to, 
and all work warranted, at 

No. 6 SHERMAN STREET. 



Joshua b. bacheller, 
lMCKSllfllI&, 

CARRIAGE WORK AND GENERAL 
JOBBING Done to Order. 

WORK WARRANTED. 

I*. O. Rox. 394. 



Olamag^llflnHfHrtopi 

No. 6 Sherman Street, near Spring*. 



JOHN H. WETHERELL, 



-^CARRIAGE^TRIMMING- 

IN ALL ITS BRANCHES PROMPTLY 
ATTENDED TO AT 

No. 6 SHERMAN STREET. 



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E. LANDERS & CO., 

(floacl) })aiutci0, 

Particular attention given to Painting and 

Varnishing Coaches, Clarences and all 

first-class Carriages, at 

No. 6 SJierman Street, 



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Newport 

Situated North of the Ocean House, on Belle vue Ayenue. 

Size of building 131x77 feet, 

MR. A. H. OLDS, 

The Proprietor and Manager, has this season built a large and elegant bnildiug for the use of the 
PLIMPTON ROLLER SKATE, which are so extensively used in all parts of Europe and America. 

It is new and novel, and bids fair to attain a popularity almost without precedent. No advertis- 
ing is done, for the proprietor does not desire to make the affair entirely public, and Mr. Olds 
reserves the right to exercise the strictest supervision over the sale of tickets and the letting of skates. 

His intention is to have a place where Ladies and Gentlemen can come themselves or allow their 
children to come with the most perfect propriety. No disorderly person or conduct are to be per- 
mitted in the Rink, or any reckless skating allowed. On these points the manager pledges himself to 
the strictest observance of the rules. Competent Teachers are provided for the instruction of all in 
the use of the Skates and a corps of nimble lads in uniform will see that each person is properly fitted 
with Skates, and render the necessary assistance in putting them on. 

Dressing Kooms are provided for both Ladies and Gentlemen, and, altogether, makes it a very 
Fashionable Resort for this novel amusement. 




-FOR- 



Rheumatism, Gout aud Neuralgia, 



MANUFACTURED BY THE 




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OF PARIS AND LEIPZIG. 



Immediate relief waiTanted. 
Permanent cure g-uaranteed. 
Now exclusively used by all 
celebrated physicians of Eu- 
rope and America, becoming- a 
staple, harmless and reliable 
remedy on both continents. 
The highest Medical Academy 
of Paris report 95 cures out of 
100 cases. 



■H^ NO MORE ^JW% 
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^ ACUTEOR CHRONIC A 

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SURE CURE. 



Secret— The only dissolver of 
the poisonous uric acid which 

exists ill the blood of rheu- 
matic and fiouty patients. $1 
a box ; boxes for $5. Sent 
to any address on receipt of 
price. Indorsed by physi- 
cians. Sold by all drugg-ists. 
Address 



Only Importers' Depot, 212 Broadway, cor. Fulton Street (Knox Building), 



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George P. Lawton, 

Livery, Sale and Boarding Stable, 




This is the place where you can buy anything- in the Horse or Carriage line ; or hire by the season, month 
or single trip at the LOWEST PRICES. Call and see us at 

Xo^. 13, 15, ir, 19, ^1 ^i)tl 33 M-S5l<S0f{0U(^a $^fj5{lj^, 

¥0 Owr\ei'^ of nou^e^ ir\ X^\Ycpoi't k.i)d Yidii]ity. 

To all who need the services of a painter, the subscriber would say, that he carries on the business in all 

its departments. With the best of workmen and the best of stock, can do as good work as is done 

in New England or no pay if not as represented ; and will have the job done at time agreed. 

TO OWNERS OF CARRIAGES. 

We paint all kinds of carriages from a baby carriage to the largest stage coach at reasonable prices, and 
warrant satisfaction ; also take carriages on storage in dry store room where there are no moths. 

— CARRIAGES TO SELL. 

We have on hand Carriages of all kinds to sell at fair prices; amongst them are Phaetons, with and without 

Rumbles, also with Canopies ; Phaeton Top Buggies, Box Top Buggies, Carryalls, Open Wagons, 

Jump Seats, and number of other styles. Several very nice Second-Hand Carriages very 

cheap. Come and see them if you want a Carriage. Both Shops are connected 

with Telephone Exchange. 

ARNOLD L. BURDICK, House and Carriage Painter. 

Paint Shop, I08 Spring Street. Carriage Shop, Weaver Ave., East of Ocean House- 

The Subscriber would call especial attention to the Ladies' and Children's Fine Goods which he is introduc- 
ing the present Season to the citizc^ns and visitors of Newport, from the Manufactory of Dearborn & Day. 

This firm employs none but the best df workmen and use only the best quality of stock. They have 
made it a point to manufacture none but first quality work, and as a consequence their goods are much 
sought after, and the reputation of the "New York County Fine Sewed Shoe " is well established, they 
are made Ave widths and are perfect fitting. We also keep for Gents' Fine Goods, a full line from the cel- 
ebrated Curtis Manufactory of Boston, together with a general assortment of goods from some of the 
best manufacturers in the country. 

JOHN M. SWAN, 100 Thames Street, opp. Covell's Block, Newport, R. I. 



This popular Family and Transient Hotel having been put in first-class order will open May 1st to 
November 1st. with a great reduction of former prices. Specially low rates made for families spending 
the season. For particulars, etc., etc., apply to 

PHILIP RIDER, PROPRIETOR. 





Open all the Year. Strictly First-Class. 

The above Hotel is now open for the fourth season under the present management. Coaches leave the 
Hotel every half hour for the Beach and Bellevue Avenue. 

Terms Reasonable. Western Union Telegraph in the House. 

L, F. ATTLETON, Proprietor. 



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Greenwich, cor. Broad Street 
Providence, R. I. 



Partios in want of anythingr in my line, can 
obtain the same at the 

ELMWOOD GREENHOUSE, 

Greenwich, corner Congress Street. 



MRS. S. E. HEMINGWAY, 

FORMERLY MRS. S. E. SABB, DEALER IN 

lEi TJ Dye A. IST lELJi^X-R, C3-OOIDS 

Hair Coinbing-s carefully Headed. Faded Bands Dyed to any shade of Brown. 
278 Westminster Street, 2d door above Music Hall, Providence, R. I. 

IW Not responsible for goods over Ninety Days. 




Portrait 




357 ^VESTJVLINSTER STREET, 

:pi^O"vi3DEisroE. 




COR. DORRANCE AND WEYBOSSET STS., 
Providence, R. I. 



THERE IS A BLIND PHYSICIAN IN THIS STATE, 

of many years' practice, who has never failed to treat or prevent OIPHTHERIA or CROUP, 
whether accompanied with scarlet fever or not, successfully, (iarg-les and burnings of the throat entirely 
avoided. Also ASTHITIA, RHEUMATISM, NEURAL.GIA, and diseases of this class. 
Address BLIND PHYSICIAN, _^ 

Nayatt Point, R. I., U. S. A. 

Consultation by letter must contain a stamp and directed envelope and ten cents for registry fee. 



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Fl^AGG'S I 

268 WESTMINSTER STREET, 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



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ALL KINDS OF HAIR WORK AT SHORT NOTICE. 



Combings Made up and Headed by a New Process. Largest Stock of Real Hair in 

New England. 




Vohey W, Mason & Co., 
FRICTION 

PULLEYS, 

HOISTING MACHINERY 
AND ELEVATORS, 

Lafayette St, Froviflence. R. I. 



Rhode Island Cement Drain Pipe Co,, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Drain, Sewer, Well and Chimney Pipes. Also, Garden Vases, 

Horse Blocks, Match Safes, Etc. 

Oflace, BEACH, near PAKK ST., PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

In rear State Prison, and near the Cove Basin. 




Chimney Top. 

M. BURT, Agent. 



2i-ineh Well Pipe. 

0. W. COE, Treasurer. 



I^-Contracts taken for Lxying Drains and Putting in Wells at lo«- rates 



ADAPTED TO ALL KINDS OF PLOUGHS. 

PRICES LOW. Examine this Rake before you buy any other. 

MEADOW KING MOWER, 

The Simplest, Strongest and Most Durable Mower in use for Ease or Draft. 



CRECCiCO. 

Tnimansburgr; 

N.Y. 




Unequalled Lawn King Mower. 

Every Machine Warranted. 



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CHARTER OAK SWIVEL PLOW. CHAMPION "iKNIFE GRINDER. 
SOLD ONLY BY o. S. CURTIS, East Providence, watchemoket post office. 

Within Five Minutes' Walk from Vue d' Leau Station. 



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Particular attention given to fine Watch Repairing. Also, Jewelry of any kind made to 
order in the best style, and all kinds of repairing done promptly. 

NO. 223 WESTMINSTER STREET, 



PORTABLE AND SET 



DAVID CADY'S SONS, 

SOLE AGENTS, 

£67 HigK Street, J^roviderhce, R. I. 

Kitchen Furnishing Goods. 



GEO. C. ELIOTT. 



5 GEO^ W ELIOTT. 



ELIOTTS 

(Carriage ]3epository, 

NOS. 139, 141 AND 143 BROAD STREET, 



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i^^Fine Carriages, Harness, Sleighs, Robes and Horse Clothing Always in Stock. 

THOS. W. SPRAGUE, 

WHOLESALE DEALER IN 




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PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



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MOST EXTENSIVE 



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The Finest and 



Summer Garden 



In New England. 



I OPEN EVERY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. | 

BRILLIANT GAS ILLUMINATIONS, MUSIC, DANCING, SHOOTING GAL- 
LERY, ARCHERY RANGES, SWINGS, BOATS, GOAT TEAMS, &c., &c. 

Among- the many added permanent features will be the 

$10,000— Crystal Fountain— $10,000 

From the Centennial and Paris Expositions. The most elaboi-ate and expensive one ever constructed, 

emitting- numberless jets of spray, lighted by over one hundred g-as burners, will be in full play 

afternoon and evening-. Remarkable and unequalled scenic effect. 




Castle and Bridge of St. Angelo, with Grand Procession and Instantaneous Illumination of St. Peters. 
Words fail to describe this g-org-eous spectacle. St. Peters, towering- above the city as it does, seems Uke 
an immense lantern hang-ing- in the clouds, bewildering the spectator with the gi-andeur of its proportions 
and wealth of decorations. The Bicycle, Curriculo, Velocipede and Race Track, one-sixth of a mile in 
leng-th, constructed under the superintendence of Col. J. Albert Monroe, C. E. 



with its numberless gay plumag-ed birds from every clime. The SlOO prize MACAW. Talking: COCKA- 
TOOS, PARROTS, etc.. etc. The MONKEY CAGE with many varieties of this amusing " Link." 
A School of SEALS in the Fairy Lake. The GRAPHOSCOPE GALLERY, in an elegant 
building- at the head of Crystal Lake, comprising- many views with Dioramic effects. 

-^=THE LADY BOHEMIAN GLASS BLOWERS,'!^- 

Located here for the season. The problem of the Nineteenth Century, THE EliECTRIC IjIOHT 
will supplement the gas illuminations. THE MAMMOTH STEREOPTICON, producing 
Views thirty feet in diameter. A large and well trained CHORUS, under the direction of 
Mr. JL^LIAN JORDAN, will appear weekly. The regular and special Musical Pro- 
gramme under the di.ectiou of Mr. D. W. REEVES. The 




will eclipse all our previous exhibitions, producing, at stated Intervals, effects never witnessed in this 

country. To that end, the management have, at great expense, engaged for the season PROF. 

MORRITZ BLANK, of the Cremorne Gardens and Crystal Palace, London, under whose 

superintendence these grand Pyrotechnic Displays will be given. In addition to the 

above named Regular and Permanent Attractions, many startling novelties 

of an entirely original character are in course of preparation. Special 

attention will be given to the amusement of Children in 

the afternoon. 

The Horse Car facilities will be greatly increased by the construction of a track on Broad street direct 

to the Garden, thus making THREE direct lines. Open Daily from 3 to 10.30 P. M. 

D^inne nP AHmicoinn* ( From 3 to 6 P. M., Children under 15, 10 Cents ; Adults, 15 Cents. 
rrlCeS OT MUmibalUll , ■( Af ter 6 p. M., - - Adults, 35 Cents ; Children, 15 Cents. 

AlVEW AND COMMODIOUS RESTAURAIVT has been erected adjoining the Pa viUoD , which 
will be devoted to the dispensing of refreshments under the direction of an experienced caterer. 
Retiring Rooms for Ladies. Check Room where patrons coming in carriages can leave whips, robes, etc. 
Competent men to look after horses and carriages. Liberal arrangements will be made w:itn committees 
either to lease or share. Our Automatic Check System gives an accurate " count " of the number of visi- 
tors. Especial attention will be given to the amusement of children, making this a most desirable place 
for Sabbath School Picnics. Address, 



SHIRLEY & REEVES, Providence, R. I. 



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No. 6 Worcester St., 

■igrcvidcncc, p. 1. 



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Walk from the Depot 



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Sleighs and Harnesses. Robes of all kinds, Blankets. Mats, AVliips, &e. Second-hand Carriages always on 

Hand. All our Work Wai-ranted. 



Ocean Cottage. 



This well-known Summer Resort is now open for the Season. The 

grounds have been put in thorough order, and never since 

Ocean Cottage was opened has the place been so 

attractive as this Season. Boats run 

hourly to and from the place. 



m Binncrd Served Bailu 

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AT 50 CENTS. 

Parties desiring further information, please address 

OCEAN COTTAGE CO., 



BOX 1072. 



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Sign OF THE Big Doll, 






Dry and Fancy Goods, Yarns, Silks, Hosiery. 
— Curtis, DeValle & Co. 



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WISHING TO HAVE THEIR STRAW, FELT, CHIP AND LEGHORN 






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AND MADE INTO THE LATEST STYLES, WILL FIND AT 

Hawes' Bleachery, No. 199 Westminster Street, 

A FULL LINE OP SAMPLES OF LATEST NEW YORK AND PARIS STYLES TO SELECT FROM. 
Obliging- attendants, and Hats ready when promised. 

E. Tiisrsoisr, 
M ;^N«i'^c'pni^E^v^]viDv6mDEi^v0P: p iGTa^E-f K ^|)iIEg 

In Fine Cold, Berlin Cilt and Fancy Woods, &c. 

159 Westminster Street, providence, r. i. 

Mats and Passe-partouts made to order. Old Frames Ke-gilt. 

GEORGE WRIGHT'S 

Sporting Goods Emporium. 

BASE BALL, CRICKET, LAWN TENNIS, INDIAN CLUBS, BOX- 

ING GLOVES, AND PATENT ROWING MACHINES, 

WITH BOOKS OF INSTRUCTION. Send for my 

Journal of Prices. 

No. 790 Washington St., Boston, Mass. 




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English Fig Soap 



FOR WASHING WOOLS, 

LION OF THE DAY SOAP,i 



And all kinds of Pure Soaps for Family use. 

Also Superior Glycerine and Pumice Soap for Toilet use. Soaps for "Woolen. Straw, 

Cotton and Print Works, 

Corner Clay and Front Sts., Pawtucket, R. I. 

Orders by Mail or Express will receive prompt attention. 
J. O. nBAPEn. A, W. STANLEY. 



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I^rovicleTLce, R. I. 



Cash Capital, MH&Ul Assets, Jan, 1st, 1179, 1616,903,54, 



R. R. Stafford, Rowland Hazard. 

Wm. S. Slater, J. H. DeWolf, 

Resolved AVatermaa, Wm. Grosvenor, Jr., 

Warren S. Greene, Wui. Ames, 

John S. Palmer, 



Henrj' J. Steere, R. I. Gammell, 

Chas. E. Paine, E. Philip Mason, 

Henry L. Parsons, Royal C. Taft, 

F. W. Carpenter, Eusene W. Mason, 

Daniel Day. 



WARREN S. GREENE, Secretary. J. H. DEWOLF, President. 

J. B. BRANCH, Ass't Sec'y. 



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PAINTERS' MATERIALS 

Of Every Description, 

Who desire reliable goods at the lowest prices, will find it for their advantage before purchasing 

elsewhere, to call on 



RICE, STARKWEATHER & CO. 



Successors of Rice, Draper & Co., 

No, 25 Exchange Place, - Providence, R, L 



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Telephone Exchange Co. 

(Licensed by the National Bell Telephone Co.) 

OFFICE AND OPERATING ROOMS, BROWNELL BUILDING, 
91 Westminster St., 31 Exchange Place. 

Branch Office, - Dexter B^lilding, IPawt-Qcket. 



This Company's lines connect with all the leading Physicians, Stores, Markets, Stables, and other 

places ol business throughout the City, besides numerous residences and places of amusement. 
Any subscriber can be placed in direct communication, by Telephone, with any other 
subscriber, and conversation not be overheard by others on the same line. 
JVIESi^EiVOER SERVICE AT HSIJAL, RATES. 

^'Improved bells whicJi ring only ivhen a patron is wanted. 



OFFICE ALWAYS OFFN—DAY AN£> NIGHT. 

LOUIS W. CLARKE, Electrician. GERRIT S. GLEN, Gen'i Agent, 





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cJmp'Oiktri and JoMe'c6 of 




HOSIERY, 

Notions I Gloves 

nsros. es j^^niTiD es 



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81, 83 1 85 Canal St., Providence, R. I. 

iHEAVY HARDWARE. 



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Carriage Makers' Supplies. 



SPECIALTIES IN FINE IRONS g HIGH g LOW STEELS. 
Merchants and Miners Transportation Company's 




oYideiide, ^'^orfolk aqd Saltiii}oi^e 

STEAMSfflP UNE, 

^•**-COMPRISIKG THE STEAMERS, — e^= — -P 



-SAILING DAYS FROM PROVIDENCE, 




TUESDAY ANI) SATURDAY, 6 P. 31,, from Lonsdale 
WJicirf, India Street, 

Connecting at Norfolk, Va., with tlie Norfolk and Petersburg' Railroad and the Virginia and Tennessee 
Air Line. At Portsmouth, Va.. with the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad and the Atlantic Coast Line. 
At West Point, Va., with the Richmond, York River and Chesapeake Railroad and the Piedmont Air 
Line to all Points South. And at Baltimore, Md., with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. For Washing- 
ton. D. C. Pittelnirgh, Pa., Wheeling and Parkersburgh, W. Va.. St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, 
and all points West. North and Southwest : and with the Merchants and Miners Transportation Company's 
Steamship Line to Savannah, Ga., and its Georgia Central, and Atlantic and Gulf Railroad connections, for 
all points in Georgia, Alabama and Florida. Also with steamship lines from Baltimoi-e to Charleston, S. 
C, and South Carolina Railroad. Freight rates from Providence to all points South and West ai'e the same 
as from New York city. Mark goods Ha P. N. and B. Line. Thi-ough bills lading given Aia all the diflfer- 
eut routes as above. For further information, &c., apply to 

1. H. EQCKWILL, Aggnt, Pfovidenct, E. I. 

Also Agent for Baltimore and Ohio, ^'irginia and Tennessee, and Georgia Central Railroads and 
Atlantic Coast and Piedmont Air Lines. 




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COTTAGES TO LET, 



ON REASONABLE TERMS, EASILY ACCESSIBLE BY DRIVE, BOAT OR RAIL. 



For Terms, address 



HIRAM D. MAXFIELD, 



p. O. Box, LXII. 



PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



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M. E. WALKER, Proprietor. 

At these works are manufactured, and kept constantly for sale, Drain, Well, and Chimney 
Pipe, Garden Vases, Carriage Blocks, Garden Seats, Garden Border, Chimney Tops, Chimney 
Capping, Bird Houses, Match Safes, &c., &c. Also Sprogles' Patent Stone Burial Vault or 
Coffin Receptacle. 




The material used in the manufacture of these goods is of the best quality, and the -workmanship 
is not excelled, if equaled, by any other concern in the country. ^ , ■ ., ,_■„„ „„ 

Ohiections are made to iron for vases, that they draw the heat of the sun, consequently drying up 
the earth, that they rest on the inside, thus killing the roots of the plants, and that they require pamt- 
•ine every year. These great objections are entirely overcome by our Stone Vases, of which we have 
a large variety of patterns. They are beautiful in design, they retain the moisture of the earth, they 
require no painting, and best of all they cost but little more than half as much as iron. Hundreds of 
these Vases are now in this city, on the finest lawns, and in cemetery lots, which for yf^rs have with- 
stood the frosts of winter, and the heat of summer. Every dollar that is expended ]iuliciously foi the 
ornamentation of grounds, add thrice the amount to its valuation. , ., ^ , .„„ . ,„^ ^^-.^^ 

Our 24 and 30-iSch Well Pipe is acknowledged by all who have used it to be superior to any other 
known material for making a perfect well. You avoid having surface water or insects m your well, 
and the cost is no more than common stone. -r,, , ^ . -d- i xr n.^ x-^ oro na Hnr 

Our Chimney Tops, Chimney Capping, Carriage Blocks, Seats, Bird Houses, 5.C., &c., are, as dur- 
able as natural stone, and cannot be excelled for the purpose for which they are designed. 

Call and see our goods, or send for our Illustrated Catalogue and price list. 



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CAKE, PASTRY, CONFECTIONERY 




Ladies' cuxd G-eixts' RestciTU^CLixt, 

French and Vienna Bread and Rolls, 

G. M. ARDOENE, Caterer. 



Branch Store. 26 North Main Street. 




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A SPECIALTY WITH 



Earle & Prew's Express. 



with i-lose connections to all parts of Maine. New 
Hampshire. Massachusetts and the Canadas. 



Boston, 6 Times Daily, 
Worcester, 4 Times Dai I 

N/:^iA# V/\vL Oif%# connecting to BROOKLYN, Newark, Philadelphia, 
CVY lUriVV^Iiy, Baltimore and the south. 



%A#/\w/>Ae^AV /i TivvvAe r\«^il%r connecting to all points in Vermont, AVest- 
WOrCeSier, 4 l imeS Uaiiy, em Massachusetts, and the entire west. 



4g©ati ki Isited States and Oasida lxpri§s. 



Shippers will find it to be to their pecuiiiarv advantage to favor this Express 
with their consio-nments. 



Principal Office : ♦ 58 and 62 Eddy St., Providence, R. I, 



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Families aud othei's wishing to secure 
Spices free from the usual adulterations 
can rely on so doing by purchasing- those 
put up bv 

The AMERICUS MILLS, 

Under the name of 




need. 



The same ai-e for sale by nearly all First 
Class Groceries. 



Office, 82 Weybosset Street 
PROVIDENCE. 




33 & 35 BEVERLY ST., PROVIDENCE, R. I. 

City Offices. 150 Broad Street. 39 Westminster Street, 483 Higli Street. 22 South 

Main Street ; also at D. Lanagan's, 113 Main street, Pawtucket, 

and J. Scliwarz. 108 Main Street, Woonsocket. 

ALL KINDS OF LAUNDRY WORK DONE AT PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES. 



Shirt with Bosom 10 Cents. 
Night Shirts - 8 " 
Under Shirts - 5 " 
Drawers - 5 '" 

Half Hose - 3 " 



GENTS' PRICE LIST. 



Collars - 
Cuffs - - 2 
Handerkerchiefs 3 
White Vests - 20 
Pants - 20 to as 



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FRANKLIN & MESSENGER, 



Wholesale aud Retail Dealers in 




PIPIE lAlilNfii, 




Window Shades, Upholstery Goods, &c. 

Window Shades, Drapery and Cornices Put Up to Order and Sat- 
isfaction Guaranteed. 

Mo. 11 MatJiewson Street, near Broad, 

PROVIDENCE, R. I, 

J^^Sole Agents for Anderson's Patent Window Screens..^^ 



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WINSOR'S LINE STEAMERS. 




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file to FMlaclelpM 



SaiHng from Ives' W1iarf\ India Street, Providence, every 

Wedfiesday and Saturday at 6 P. J/., and from JPhila- 

delpliia same days at 10 A. 31. 

Connects with Pennsylvania Railroad and Phil'a &: S. M. S. S. Co. for Savannah. Freight forwarded to all 

points South and West, i^" Attention of Shippers is call«tl to the fact that this is the ONLY LINE 

STEAMERS plying- between Providence and Philadelphia. Mark g-oods, Winsor'S Line. 

For further information apply at the office. 



GEO. A. KILTON, Ag/., 

Ives' Wharf, India Street, Providence. 



HENRY WINSOR& CO.. Agts., 

388 So. Wharves, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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(ESTABLISHED 18.57.) 



HlEDI^Y*^600Dg-^}^0^SE 



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Sopjyin Homestead Bnildinfj, 



Providence, R. I, 



-^'^BARGAINS FOR THE PEOPLE. 






A— Shawls, Suits and Cloaks. 

B— Silks and Mourning Goods. 

C— Colored Dress Goods. 

1>— Ladies' Muslin Underwear, &c. 

E— Laces, Fringes, Trimmings. &c. 1 J— Linings, etc. 



DEPAKTMENTS : 

F— Gents' Furnishings. 

O— Hosiery and L'nderwear. 

H— Domestics. 

I— Linens. Flannels and Blankets. \ N— Fans. 



K— Notions, Small Wares, etc. 
E— Parasols and Sun t^mbreUas. 
31— White Goods. 



O— Kid and Lisle Thread Gloves. 



The above Departments embrace Goods re]iresenting all the Novelties of the Season, and at 
the Eowest Caiah Prices. 



277 & 279 Westminster St.,'\A7"_A_XjSIE3I, 



Providence, R. I. 



CITY I nsurance company, 

Of Providence, R I, 
Vaiighan Building, J^o. 19 Custom House Street, 



WM. E. BECKWITII, Pres. 



(REAR POST OFFICE.) 



EDWARD !i4. BABBITT, Sec. 



THOITIAW BUROEN^, Ass'I SfC. 



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' ]\J ARRAGANSETT HOTEL, 



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PROVIDENCE, R. I. 



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IN EVERY RESPECT WITH ALL MODERN IMPROVEMENTS. 



RATES: $2.50 to $4,00 Per Day. 

- - PROPRIETOR. 



L. H. HUMPHREYS, 



^Season of 1879. 




WARWICK NECK, R. L 

B. s. hazardTproprietor. 

This well known and popular resort will be opened for guests June 1st. Situated 
on the western shore of Xarragansett Bay, within one hour sail of Pro^-idence, and 
also one mile from Eocky Point (a carriage will be in attendance on arrival of boats, 
to convey guests to the Hotel) . This Hotel commands one of the finest views on 
the Bay and is commodiously arranged for the accommodation of one hundred 
guests, with the finest facilities for Boating, Fishing and Bathing ; the rooms are 
well appointed and all command a fine view of the Ba^-. 

Parties desiring further information, please address 

^. S. HAZJLB.n, 'WcLTwicl^ JSfecpL, R. I, 



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E. JENCKES & CO., 



■Sole Manufacturers of- 



Tlnited States (-« 

STANDARD 



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Belt Hooks, Spinning Rings, Wire Goods, Cotton Banding, Twine, &c., Leather 
Belting and Lace Leather, Brnshes, Bobbins, Roller Skins. Cop Tubes, 

Oil Cabinets, &c. 

' ^ PAWTUCKET, R. I. 



E. JENCKES, 

N. P. HICKS, 

J. E. JENCKES. \ 




THE 



MONITOR 



Oil Stove 



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MANUFACTURED IN CLEVELAND, O., IS THE ONLY 
ONE IN THE WORLD BUILT ON SCIENTINIC PRIN- 
CIPLES THAT GIVES ABSOLUTE SAFETY AND PERFECTION IN WORK 

All Oil Stoves except the Monitor are constructed on the lamp principle. The oil is directly under the 
burning wicks and soon becomes heated, thus generating- a dangerous gas, while every moment they are 
burned a larger space is created to hold the gas, precisely like a lamo. All such have proved unsafe 
and unsatisfactory, lacking in heat, durability and safety. 



EXAMINE THE MONITOR. 



The large Tank or Reservoir at the back of the stove contains the oil. It being away from the heat always 
remains cool, thus surely preventing any generation of gas. This overcomes the main objection to 
oil stoves. From this reservoir the oil feeds through a small pipe to the wicks. This stove is made of cast 
iron galvanized, and is dui-able. Observe again that this back reservoir is elevated, so that the oil 
will by gravitation flow up the wick tubes as high as the oil may be in the reservoir, and holds the heat 
and flame the same for ten hours, without fisiiiiflliug, raising the wicit or replenishing the oil, and 
also prevents crusting of the wick and losing twenty per cent, of the heat, which is the great objection to 
all other so called oil stoves ; for the moment crusting takes place the heat diminishes rapidly. The 
MONITOR is on exhibition and for sale by the agent at 

^Providence, R. I. 

yot one explosion. 



171 Westminster Street, 

^"Over 100,000 Monitor Stoves now in use. 



WILLIAM R WALKER, THOMAS J. GOULD, 

ARCHITECTS, 

ROOMS 13, 14 and 15. Third Floor, - - 27 CUSTOM HOUSE STREET. 

DESIGNS 

FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS. 



INTERIOR DECORATIONS, FURNITURE, GAS FIXTURES, Etc. 



PLANS FOR THE HEATING AND VENTILATING OF BUILDINGS 
A SPECIALTY. 



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THE Latest Discovery in Medical science 

C^r~^KA.S PRODUCED A-'-'ZZi 

Fluid Absorbent | Perfect Lotion, 

NOW OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC IN A POPULAR FORM, UNDER 

THE NAME OF 

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s-^-^^s^/r-S POWER IS MARVELLOUS.'i-^^^^^-^ 

h It is Rapidly Becoming the "Standard Household Medicine!" 

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It is Adapted to all Conditions of the Living Organism. 

// is an arrangemejit of Material that meets the approval of Physicians of every school^ 

as admirably adapted to 7neet the reguiretnents of a diseased 

or reduced system. 



HENRY BERGH, Esq., President of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Animals, says : " I applied the Sapanule to myself and received immediate relief; I com- 
mend it to the patronage of all having need of relief from suffering." 

Col. S. D. BRUCE, of " TURF, Field and Farm," says : " Nothing yet discovered is so 
eflfective as ' Sapanule,' in subduing inflammation." 



^.^CSAPANULEk.^ 

Cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Lumbago, and all Inflammatory Complaints ; Wounds, Bruises, 
Sores (New and Old); Corns, Bunions, Chilblains, Cold Sores, Piles, Boils, &c. ; Stops 
Bleeding, Takes Fire out of Burns and Scalds, Strengthens Weak Circulation, Re- 
lieves Varicose Veins, and Relieves Head Colds and Influenza by External 
Application. Invaluable at Bath and Toilet, Relieving all Exhaus- 
tion and Soreness of Body and Limb, Re-invigorating 
the Whole System. 

G^^HEALING BY SURFACE REMEDIES. =5^1:5 

" The true way to cure by absorption is throug-h the bath. Many learned men have sought for a perfect 
lotion and utterly failed after years of study. A brief mention of a discovery of a chemically com- 
bined ' lotion ' will convey to readers some idea of the theory and practice of cure by absorption. A prep- 
aration was discovered by a physician who for years suffered with inflammatory rheumatism, and who 
conceived the idea that the cure must be made through the pores. To prepare the pores for action, by 
cleansing, was first to be accomplished ; Second, healing and strengthening ingredients to be discovered ; 
Thirdly, to combine the whole so that the action should be immediate. After a careful study of different 
chemical preparations from the production of Nature, and with the assistance of one of the first chemists 
in the country, a ' lotion ' was prepared and used in baths of warm water resulting in a perfect and per- 
manent cure. Each ingredient of which this 'lotion ' is composed is used in daily practice by Physicians 
of all schools. In combination this lotion is known as " Sapanule," and the experience of yeai-s proves 
its great value, whether it be in cases of acute inflammation or in those more subtle, like chronic com- 
plaints. Thousands who daily use it pronounce it marvellous, so quickly does it allay pain, and restore 
health and vigor; so different from deluding the stomach with drugs. The great virtue of "Sapanule " 
is not confined to the immediate relief of pain in any part of the living organism, but is efficacious in 
curing all diseases of the skin, eruptive or otherwise. The great usefulness and the luxury of Oriental 
Baths has been fully established. The time and expense necessary to enjoy these places them beyond 
the reach of many. A bottle of "Sapanule " can be used for a number of baths, and will be found as 
agreeable and efficacious as those given with such elaborate appliances, and is within the means of all." — 
The, New Yorh Evening Post. 

SOIjD by AI^L. DRUCGI.STS. 30 Cts. AIVD $1 P£R BOTTIiE. 

SAMUEL GERRY & CO., 

No. 237 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. PROPRIETORS. 

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ORSFORD'S 

INVENTED BY E. N. HORSFORD, LATE PROFESSOR IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 



It restores the nutritions elements wJiicJi are taken from the 
flour in boltinr/. Xo ordinary/ Baking Powder or anything else 
used for raising bread does this. 



Universally used and reconiniended by lyrorninent j^hysieians, 

BAROX LIJEBIGf the greatest chemist of the age^ says: "J 
consider the invention of Professor Horsford''s Self-Raising Bread 
JPreiiardtion as one of the most useful gifts tvhich science lias 
made to mankind. 



Dr. jr. H. HENRY, the eminent New York physician, says: 
^'The use of Horsford-s Bread Preparation offers admirable 
means for the introduction of a valuable element into the system 
with the food of every day life.'' 

Prof. J. C. BOOTH, of Philadelphia, the distinguished chem- 
ist says: 'HVe Jiave no hesitation in recommending Professor 
Jftrsford's Self-Raising Bread Prej^a ration as a suj^erior substi- 
tute for cream of tarter in the 7>**e/^«i*«f/oii of bread." 

M. PARLOA, Superintendent of the celebrated Boston Cook- 
ing School says: ** I have used Horsford's Bread Prejyaration 
with perfect success for Bread, Biscuit and Cake." 



Put up in packages containing 11 ounces, just enough for 25 pounds of flour. 



A sample sufficient for 1 quart of flour sent post paid on receipt of a tliree cent stsvinp. 
For 35 cents in stamps or currency, ^ve will send, post paid, a regular package, sufficient for 
25 pounds of flour. 

' RuMFORD Chemical Works, 



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